EXCLUSIVE: Take That heart-throbs ,Gary Barlow ,Howard Donald and Mark Owen are gearing up to conquer Cannes on Wednesday, the first time they’ve visited during the film festival .Let’s Pray that the sun will Shine and it will be their Greatest Day.Fans of the (now middle-aged) boy band will know that Pray,Shine and Greatest Day are amongst the group’s biggest hits.
It seems as if they wrote A Million Love Songs (that’s another one) that have stood the test of time since they formed over three decades ago.The three remaining members of the band – Robbie Williams and Jason Orange do their own thing- will kick up their trendy trainers on the Majestic Pier to launch the exuberant promo for film Greatest Days, about a Take That -inspired 1990s boy band and the lives of five 16 year old girls who are obsessed with them.The women are reunited 25 years later ,still hoping to fulfil a dream of meeting their pop star heroes.Greatest Days is packed with Take That chart-toppers ,many of them written by Barlow who has enjoyed a solo career away from his band mates writing songs for films and television productions.
He has been touring the U.K. with his poignant one-man show A Different Stage.Greatest Days is still shooting with director Coky Giedroyc on locations in Lancashire and Athens .The film’s based on the 2017 stage show The Band ,written by Tim Firth (Calendar Girls), and produced by David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers.
Barlow, Donald and Owen were executive producers ,along with Robbie Williams.Firth noted that both The Band and Greatest Days are about the fans .“Those songs transport those fans.
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