The first clip from the upcoming David Bowie origin story, Stardust, has been released today.
As Variety reports, the film was scheduled to premiere at the Tribeca Festival Festival this week prior to the COVID outbreak and will now instead screen on a private online portal this week before a cinema release is expected to be announced.
Set in 1971, Stardust focuses on the late UK icon's path to his alter ego, Ziggy Stardust.
Check out the clip below, which features Johnny Flynn as Bowie, discussing his prospects in the US with Mercury Records publicist Ron Oberman (Marc Maron).
“I set out to make a film about what makes someone become an artist; what actually drives them to make their art," director Gabriel Range said.
"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.”
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