Johnny Flynn thinks the trailer for upcoming David Bowie film ‘Stardust’ has been “unhelpful”.
The 37-year-old star portrays the late music icon through the early days of his profession within the upcoming movie however he’s warned audiences to not go on the lookout for the “hits” and is apprehensive early advertising for the mission – which didn’t have the approval of Bowie’s household – has folks anticipating a blockbuster just like ‘Rocketman’ or ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’.
He advised the Large Subject journal: “It actually shouldn’t be a jukebox musical or sprawling biopic. It’s solely a few weeks of his life.
“And that’s the one movie about him that I might have wished to make.
“If you wish to see the hits, you’ll be higher off watching the actual factor or listening to his information. That is his beginnings as Ziggy.
“A few of the advertising across the movie was actually unhelpful. The trailer regarded prefer it was making an attempt to be [a big biopic] with the bombastic music.
“For me, it’s a very darkish little movie, that’s what we have been making. It’s a tiny second in time.”
Though Johnny has been an enormous Bowie fan since his teenagers, he admitted he took a break from listening to the ‘Aladdin Sane’ hitmaker’s information as a result of he’d been so immersed in them for analysis, however now he’s having fun with them once more alongside his younger son.
He mentioned: “I’ve simply began [listening to Bowie] once more. I went by way of a part the place I couldn’t as a result of I went fairly arduous into the analysis and needed to take a break.
“My 9 yr outdated has seen the movie – the others are a bit younger – however we’ve began placing the information on and he loves the art work, he’s obtained a David Bowie poster.
“He was in Canada once we have been filming and noticed me within the Ziggy wig so it was attention-grabbing seeing him course of this unimaginable artist at that age, any person who’s so revolutionary.”
