Ever because it was introduced {that a} Robbie Williams biopic with a CGI monkey within the lead position was within the works, we’ve had every kind of questions. Specifically, “what?”, “how” and “what?” once more.
Nicely, on Wednesday afternoon, our questions have been form of answered with the arrival of the primary trailer for Higher Man.
The minute-long trailer recreates a few of Robbie’s greatest moments, together with his early years rising up in Stoke-On Trent, his massive wins on the Brit Awards and his iconic efficiency at Knebworth.
And sure, all of that is carried out with a CGI monkey on the centre of the motion.
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Higher Man is helmed by Michael Gracey, greatest recognized for guiding the record-breaking film musical The Best Showman.
He informed Deadline earlier this yr that the movie arose after a sequence of interviews he performed with the award-winning singer.
“To be trustworthy, after we first began, it wasn’t essentially for a movie,” he defined. “I simply wished to seize him in his personal voice telling his story as a result of I discovered it so compelling.
“Nearly all of the recordings within the movie, the voiceover is from these recordings. Then I began taking these and chopping them collectively, nearly like a radio play, simply to see if I may kind a story that spanned the size of a movie that will preserve me engaged, simply purely if I shut my eyes and listened to it.”
He continued: “I used to be like, ‘I simply don’t wish to do one other Bohemian Rhapsody or Rocketman musical biopic’, at the very least from the standpoint by which they have been approached. I simply felt there was a extra inventive approach of coming into into this explicit story.
“So I went again to these recordings, and once I was listening to them, I discovered Rob saying typically that he was simply dragged as much as carry out, like a monkey, or it didn’t actually matter. He was simply up the again performing like a monkey. And he stated it sufficient occasions that I used to be like, ‘Oh, that’s how he sees himself. He actually sees himself as a performing monkey’. And I believed, ‘That may be wonderful; I might like to see that movie’.
“That’s the place the concept got here from,” he added.
Higher Man hits UK cinemas on Boxing Day.
