Alexander McQueen Biopic

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[Foggy]

Should be great, Andrew Haigh is destined for great things.

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Weekend is one of the greatest gay films of all time!

I'm very interested to see O'Connell's portrayal of the openly gay fashion designer.

[kieranx]

Originally Posted by Foggy

Should be great, Andrew Haigh is destined for great things.

Andrew Haigh made one terrific film, two terrible films and one horrendous television series. He's the living embodiment of "Everyone has one masterpiece inside of them."

[jacobsever]

45 Years was one of my favorite in 2015.

But I'm not usually a fan of biopics. So I'll go into this reserved.

Also, Money Monster was pretty bad.

[AaronJ]

As a big fan of fashion, and one who believes that fashion (at the haute couture level, anyways) is just as legitimate an art form as anything else, this is intriguing.

McQueen's work has always been stunning, compelling, and diverse. If the film successfully finds a way to examine his process this should be very interesting.

[BluCollector13]

I saw the McQueen documentary this evening, thought it was phenomenal and remembered the announcement about this from a few years ago. Does anyone know if it's still going happen or not? Haigh and O'Connell sounds like a perfect combo for directing and acting.

[BluBonnet]

Oliver Hermanus announces he has "inherited" long-in-the-works project of an untitled Alexander McQueen biopic

We’ve all seen a lot of tropes, especially when it comes to biopics. I’m working on one right now about Alexander McQueen. He was a gay man, HIV positive, artist, genius, living in the world of fashion with addiction, and then there’s suicide. I remember watching [Ryan Murphy’s] “Halston,” and seeing there is a path of queer people being successful and celebrated and flying too close to the sun. They are incinerated in some tragic ending. I think it sticks in our heads that that our lives could potentially go down this path, when our sexuality and lifestyles have a danger or sadness to them. All the secrecy and repression. I’ve made one, my film “Beauty.” But I’d like to offer audiences something else, a different queer experience.

How far along are you in the McQueen biopic?

I inherited this after it was in development for many, many years. I’ve started from scratch. My friend Harry Lighton [director of this year’s Cannes entry “Pillion”] wrote the screenplay for me. McQueen is a hard one. How do you make a biopic about a man who defies a biopic? It has to be form and genre bending.