The all-archive “Jane” won two Primetime Emmy Awards in 2017 and a host of other prizes during awards season. The film is Morgen’s first major feature effort since the release of his celebrated Nat Geo documentary about primatologist Jane Goodall. But clearly, the family was more amenable to a live concert-oriented documentary about the singer, particularly from someone with Morgen’s track record. We always ask each other, ‘Would he do it?’ He wouldn’t,” as evidenced by Todd Haynes’ 1998 film “Velvet Goldmine,” which has a clearly Bowie-like figure at the center and is named after one of his songs, but for which Bowie declined to license his music. Bowie’s widow, the model Iman, recently told Variety that the family is firmly against authorizing a biopic of Bowie’s life: “It’s always a no. Morgen acquired the rights to the material himself, and BMG and Live Nation are financiers as well as producers, alongside the director’s own production banner, Public Road.Ĭrucially, the pic’s been made with the support and cooperation of the David Bowie estate.

Re-recording mixers are Oscar winner Paul Massey and David Giammarco (“Ford v Ferrari”), while the sound design team includes John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone, both of whom picked up Academy Awards for the Freddie Mercury biopic. Meanwhile, the Oscar-winning sound team behind “Bohemian Rhapsody” is also mixing and designing the project.

The musician’s long-time producer Tony Visconti is adding his bona fides to the film, serving as music producer. The Park City fest - which will have a significant in-person presence this year after the pandemic forced the 2021 event to go largely virtual - falls just after the six-year anniversary of Bowie’s death on Jan. A Sundance Film Festival premiere in late January could be in the cards.

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