It’s a good looking day for U2 followers, as Apple has unveiled the primary trailer for “Bono: Tales of Give up,” the filmed model of the band’s frontman Bono’s one-man stage present as directed by Andrew Dominik.
For Dominik, that is the filmmaker’s first film since 2022’s “Blonde,” the critically panned Marilyn Monroe biopic starring Ana de Armas. However the movie can also be set to premiere as a particular screening at Cannes earlier than it debuts on Apple TV+.
The movie debuts on the streamer on Might 30 and also will be out there through the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional headset and Apple Immersive Video. It’s the first feature-length movie made out there within the 180-degree VR format, that includes each 8K image and spatial audio.
“Tales of Give up” is predicated on Bono’s memoir “Give up: 40 Songs, One Story,” with which he had an accompanying guide tour and theater tour made right into a one-man present “Tales of Give up: An Night of Phrases, Music and Some Mischief…” Or, as he says within the trailer, his “quarter-man” present, a dig at him saying these are the “tall tales of a brief rock star” (he’s 5-foot-6-inches tall).
Shot fully in black and white, “Tales of Give up” particulars Bono’s life’s journey, his relationships together with his spouse, his dad and mom, buddies, and his religion, and he discusses a few of his extra private tales from being a rock star and an activist. The movie was shot from the Beacon Theatre reveals (it’s not the Sphere, but it surely’ll do) and options Bono performing stripped-down variations of a few of his most well-known U2 songs like “Lovely Day” and “Metropolis of Blinding Lights,” as seen within the trailer.
The movie is a manufacturing of RadicalMedia and Plan B Leisure. Jon Kamen and Dave Sirulnick (“Summer season of Soul,” “Hamilton,” “David Byrne’s American Utopia”) produce alongside Academy Award-winning Plan B Leisure’s Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner (upcoming “F1,” “Moonlight,” “12 Years a Slave”). Bono government produces with Jennifer Pitcher (“Kiss The Future”) and Kelly McNamara (“V-U2 an Immersive Live performance Movie at Sphere Las Vegas”).
Try the trailer beneath.