Michael Gracey On Telling Singer Robbie Williams’ Life Story As Musical With A Most Unusual Twist
deadline.comAfter today’s Telluride premiere of Better Man, the cat will be out of the bag. Or, more appropriately, the monkey will be out of the barrel.
The film covers Robbie Williams’ larger than life ascension from the bad boy in the Brit boy band Take That to superstar solo artist – with all the drug & alcohol use, struggles with depression & anxiety – is captured in its decadent glory befitting a superstar who pushed every envelope.
Directed by Michael Gracey, Better Man is as much a full-blown musical as his last hit, The Greatest Showman. Only here, all of the characters are depicted by humans, except for Williams.
He appears throughout the film in the form of, as Williams says, “a cheeky chimpanzee.” In this interview, Gracey discusses this massive creative swing he, Williams and the film’s financiers and the distributor Paramount Pictures have taken.
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