David Bowie tragics finally have their first glimpse at the new Bowie origin film, Stardust.
The upcoming film stars Johnny Flynn in the lead role. Set in 1971, it will explore 24-year-old Bowie’s first trip to America, the events that inspired the creation of his alter ego, Ziggy Stardust, and his transcendence to one of history’s greatest pop culture icons.
Writer and director Gabriel Range has maintained that the film is not a biopic, rather “a film about what makes someone become an artist; what actually drives them to make their art.”
“That someone is David Bowie, a man we’re used to thinking about as the star he became, or as one of his alter egos: Ziggy Stardust; Aladdin Zane; The Thin White Duke. Someone I only ever saw at a great distance, behind a mask; a godlike, alien presence. Even in his perfectly choreographed death, he didn’t seem like a regular human being.”
Stardust was scheduled to debut this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, which was postponed amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The clip, released exclusively through Variety, features a conversation between Bowie and his publicist Ron Oberman — portrayed by Marc Maron. “All it takes is one believer to change the world, right? And we’ve got two,” Maron says. “You believe in yourself, don’t you?”. Watch it below.
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