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Speaker 1: Moon Age Daydream is in cinemas September fifteen, the much

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Speaker 1: anticipated David Bowie documentary. The film premiere at carn in May,

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Speaker 1: and critics have been pretty much unanimous.

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Speaker 2: In their praise. Director Brett Morgan is with us, good morning, Brett,

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Speaker 2: good morning. Well we saw it, and I mean, congratulations.

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Speaker 2: It is a force.

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Speaker 1: I felt like a nuclear bomb had gone off in

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Speaker 1: my face in the.

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Speaker 2: Best possible way. I mean, it was so loud in

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Speaker 2: the cinema and the ship the chair was shaking, and

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Speaker 2: it was awesome.

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Speaker 3: It was like a ride. Yeah, incredible ride.

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Speaker 2: We're Bowie fans, by the way, this was you know wow.

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Speaker 4: I love that description of ride. I started making films.

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Speaker 4: I used to describe each film when a reporter would

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Speaker 4: ask me, how would you describe the film? And I

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Speaker 4: would like to say, if Disneyland had a ride, Robert

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Speaker 4: Evans the Kids Season Picture is the ride? Yeah. So

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Speaker 4: I do you think the Mooni's day dream? Is it

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Speaker 4: that the good metaphor that.

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Speaker 3: Hard that is the ultimate thrill? Rod?

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Speaker 5: Can I ask you when you first spoke, when you

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Speaker 5: spoke to David, what was it fifteen years ago or so?

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Speaker 5: Do you think the thing the project you were talking

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Speaker 5: with David about that didn't eventually at the time, how

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Speaker 5: different would that have been to the end result what

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Speaker 5: you ended up with in twenty two one.

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Speaker 4: Hundred and eighty degrees. And the project that I was

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Speaker 4: presenting David in two thousand and seven would have been

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Speaker 4: a film that he would have been performing in for

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Speaker 4: ninety minutes, right. It would have required a global fifty

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Speaker 4: days shoot, and at the time he was at semi retirement,

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Speaker 4: so the timing didn't work out. All things happened for

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Speaker 4: a reason, and I wasn't evolved enough I think back

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Speaker 4: then to make the film that I ultimately made. You know,

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Speaker 4: there's a number of things had happened. I had a

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Speaker 4: heart attack and was in a coma for a week

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Speaker 4: shortly before I started work on the film, and while

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Speaker 4: I was in recovery, I started ingesting all of this

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Speaker 4: Bowie interviews. And while I was expecting to hear about

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Speaker 4: how he wrote all these wonderful songs, what I was

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Speaker 4: really resonated with me was his kind of life philosophy,

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Speaker 4: which was, you know, mainly about how to make the

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Speaker 4: most of each and every day, and that really resonated,

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Speaker 4: and that's sort of what the film ended up becoming

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Speaker 4: a life affirming journey that is very much filled with

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Speaker 4: these rich and wonderful nuances and LFE device from David

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Speaker 4: which will hopefully, you know, leave people in a better

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Speaker 4: place than they walked in.

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Speaker 1: David Bo's estate has been very very stern on who

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Speaker 1: it's and thank goodness, who it's going to allow to

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Speaker 1: you know, to use his music to make something that's

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Speaker 1: sanctioned by them. How have they reacted to this?

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Speaker 2: His family, the.

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Speaker 4: Estate has been so so unbelievably supportive from the get go.

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Speaker 4: When I landed the job, I had a meeting with

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Speaker 4: the executor of his state, bill'sis but who had been

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Speaker 4: with David since eighty three, and Bill said to me, listen,

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Speaker 4: David's not here to authorize and improve this film. So

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Speaker 4: this film is never going to be David Bowie on

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Speaker 4: David Bowie. It's going to be Brett Morgan on David Bowie.

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Speaker 4: And that is you need to embrace that, and that

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Speaker 4: is not you know, there were no restrictions limitations. I

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Speaker 4: showed them the film, and there were you know a

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Speaker 4: couple of things that they said they wished, you know,

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Speaker 4: weren't in the film, which I suppose on a certain level,

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Speaker 4: you know, it is a good thing, and you know

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Speaker 4: there's a weird thing that happens with documentaries. I was

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Speaker 4: just talking to as If about this. He did be

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Speaker 4: Amy film, you know, which was heavily criticized because Amy's

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Speaker 4: fathered in like the film, and you know, I was saying,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's kind of funny because would you want

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Speaker 4: in his father.

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Speaker 3: Exactly?

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Speaker 4: Well, it's sort of a badge of honors, but we're

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Speaker 4: very blessed with incredible support from the estate.

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Speaker 1: Well you know, you say, it's Brett Morgan and David Bowie.

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Speaker 1: But there is something that I came away really strongly

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Speaker 1: from the film with, and I'll give you a little

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Speaker 1: fawning warning for a moment, but I felt like, well

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Speaker 1: that just negated any need for anyone to ever make

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Speaker 1: any kind of Bohemian Rhapsody esque biopic, because I immediately

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Speaker 1: realized that no one can tell David's story other than

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Speaker 1: sort of David through his words and visions and images

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Speaker 1: any better than it was just told you couldn't do,

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Speaker 1: you know, a movie with someone playing David now, and

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Speaker 1: I don't think anyway.

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Speaker 4: I'll share another funny story with you. About a year

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Speaker 4: and a half into working on the film, Bohemian Rhapsody

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Speaker 4: popped out, and I saw the film fourteen times. Well

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Speaker 4: I just want but I went because of the music,

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Speaker 4: Like I am, hearing that music mixed that way in

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Speaker 4: Dolby Atmos was exhilarating. And you know, it's a it's

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Speaker 4: a simple film, it's a sing along film. It's it's

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Speaker 4: it's it's very serviceable. It does a wonderful job achieving

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Speaker 4: its goals. And I went back and met with Bill,

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Speaker 4: the executor, and I said, look, I'm trying to figure

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Speaker 4: out how we should go about this. I said, you know,

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Speaker 4: on one hand, I think that we can sort of

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Speaker 4: do this like Bohemian Rhapsody, where it's incredibly simple and

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Speaker 4: easy and spoon fed and sing along and will probably gross,

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Speaker 4: you know, a very significant amount of money. Yes, Or

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Speaker 4: I could kind of create the film more in David's

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Speaker 4: style and manners, which, while he did write a number

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Speaker 4: of pop songs, his general approach was it was a

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Speaker 4: little more kind of challenging and old. And Bill looked

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Speaker 4: at me and goes, well.

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Speaker 3: That's your problem, had right, And the.

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Speaker 4: Answer was what you just said, which is you can't

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Speaker 4: do Bohemian. The Bohemian Rhapsody film is I think what

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Speaker 4: we ended up doing, which is not Bohemian rapsy. It's

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Speaker 4: the Bowie version, which is he tells the story himself,

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Speaker 4: and it's it's a film that is as mysterious and

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Speaker 4: hopefully illuminating as David Bowie was in life.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Bret watching watching this one, as I called it,

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Speaker 5: the ride one hundred and forty minute rode, which is incredible.

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Speaker 5: I'm thinking, there's so much material here to put that

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Speaker 5: all together would have been so hard to collide and

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Speaker 5: get clearances for. But David helped you. They didn't he

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Speaker 5: because he was collecting David in the end.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was. It was. You know, when we started

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Speaker 4: the film, the state granted me access and provided me

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Speaker 4: with all the content to their archives. There were millions

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Speaker 4: of assets in there, and I spent two years screening

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Speaker 4: for everything to try to extract the best and the

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Speaker 4: brightest and the most vibrant material to to basically light

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Speaker 4: up the screens. You know, this was a we're living

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Speaker 4: in a moment where very few documentaries and are being

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Speaker 4: attended to and cinemas, you know, coming out of the

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Speaker 4: pandemic and everything. Mooney's Dating was designed from conception to

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Speaker 4: be a theatrical event, whether it's a climacu or standard theater,

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Speaker 4: it's designed to be seen with a crowd in a

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Speaker 4: pat you know, in a full cinema. Yeah, so we're

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Speaker 4: thrilled that on the fifteenth it's opening I think in

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Speaker 4: two hundred plus screens throughout the country and we're just overjoyed.

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Speaker 4: But Bowie lived in Australia for a period of time

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Speaker 4: in the late seventies and eighties.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, he mentioned it in the film.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 4: And when we started the film, I asked the estate,

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Speaker 4: you know, which territories around the globe were particularly strong

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Speaker 4: for David, and first thing out of the mouse was Australia.

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Speaker 4: It may be bigger here than in the UK. So

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Speaker 4: we are the reception here so far as this has

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Speaker 4: been extraordinary, thrilled to unleasha.

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Speaker 1: I remember as a kid feeling such a sense of

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Speaker 1: really Daggy, such a sense of ownership over that Let's

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Speaker 1: Dance album and period because he made the videos in

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Speaker 1: out Back Australia.

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Speaker 2: And everything, and we've just felt like we had arrived.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we bit of a home away from home for him.

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Speaker 2: It was amazing.

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Speaker 1: Well, Brett, we could talk to you all day about

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Speaker 1: Bowie and about this film, but you're a man very

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Speaker 1: much in demand at the moment.

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Speaker 2: So we have to sadly let you go.

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Speaker 1: But as we said, as Bowie fans, we loved it.

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Speaker 3: Buzzing as we walked out. We just want to say

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Speaker 3: thank you man.

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Speaker 2: We wouldn't do anything for the rest of the day

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Speaker 2: put together and.

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Speaker 3: Have that that kind of assault in our senses was magical.

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Speaker 3: We have being fanous.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for talking to us.

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Speaker 5: Brand Man, and we're glad that you survived and you

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Speaker 5: got through this much. Yes, the three minutes of flat

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Speaker 5: lowing Man. We've got to make the beautiful project all

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Speaker 5: the best.

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Speaker 4: Okay, thanks, thank you, Bye bye bye