Bob Geldof reveals plans for brand new Stay Support IMAX movie
Bob Geldof has revealed that there are plans to launch a brand new Stay Support IMAX movie.
Geldof, a former member of The Boomtown Rats turned activist, and ex-Ultravox co-lead singer Midge Ure, organised the live performance held on July 13, 1985 to lift cash for famine aid in Ethiopia.
Stay Support was attended by about 72,000 folks at London’s Wembley Stadium, and, concurrently greater than 89,000 folks on the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, US. An estimated 1.9billion folks from throughout 130 international locations watched the TV broadcast.
A twentieth anniversary occasion known as Stay 8 was held in 2005 at venues in G8 international locations and South Africa.
Talking at this week’s EnergaCamerimage cinematography movie pageant, Geldof mirrored on his profession and the live performance earlier than revealing that an IMAX movie about Stay Support may very well be on the best way to cinemas quickly. He additionally stated it was good for cinemas that live performance movies like Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour are serving to to get audiences again.
“It’s good that cinema is getting used as a result of audiences are down,” Geldof stated (by way of The Hollywood Reporter). “It’s a fantastic expertise. It’s a shared expertise. The sound is nice in cinemas usually now.
“And because the media panorama spreads by way of streaming, and so on., the necessity for content material grows,” he added. “I do know for a indisputable fact that they’re taking a look at doing an IMAX movie on Stay Support, and there’s a Disney sequence — four-part or six-part sequence — on Stay Support, and there’s a musical about Stay Support on the finish of January in opening in London. So, that stuff will simply proceed.”
Reflecting on the Stay Support gigs, he added: “There have been so many particular moments. U2 have been a small band, and that was the factor that put them excessive. Plenty of issues occurred that afternoon.”
Stay Support the musical shall be staged in London subsequent 12 months. The musical, titled Simply For One Day, relies on the enduring 1985 live performance held at Wembley Stadium, which noticed acts together with Queen, U2, David Bowie and Paul McCartney carry out.
Geldof gave playwrights his blessing to stage a musical primarily based on the live performance that can characteristic songs performed on the day by acts Elton John, Queen and Sting. The musical play runs from January 26, 2024 to March 30, 2024 at London’s Previous Vic Theatre.
BBC News spoke to Geldof about what followers can anticipate from the present again in September. He clarified, firstly, that no actors shall be making an attempt to mimic the performers.
“This isn’t a tribute factor. I wouldn’t have something to do with that,” he stated. “So, there isn’t an individual dressed up as Freddie carrying a crap moustache. The songs drive the drama alongside.”
The plot of Simply For One Day, named after a line in Bowie’s tune ‘Heroes’, will steadiness a behind-the-scenes have a look at how Band Support and Stay Support got here collectively, with a love story impressed by actual occasions.
“The story relies on precise testimony from the day,” Geldof continued. “It’s actual folks telling their story all through this. So it’s advanced theatre.”