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23.05.2022 - 20:05 / deadline.com
In an interview at Deadline’s Cannes Studio on Monday, filmmaker Brett Morgen revealed he not only had a heart attack during the making of his Bowie biopic Moonage Daydream, but flatlined for two minutes and went into a coma.
“I was my own editor on this film, I was my own producer on this film, I felt very alone and responsible,” Morgen said. “During the course of making the film I had a heart attack and flatlined for a couple of minutes, and was in a coma for a week.”
Asked how his near-death experience affected his process once he came back to work on the film, he said, “Most people don’t have heart attacks at 47 years old. My heart attack happened because my life was out of control and there was no balance to it and there was no discipline. I have three children and when I came out of that experience, I thought, ‘What’s been the message of my life?’ And ‘work really hard’—that’s kind of been it. That’s the message I’d left behind for my children, and where does that get you? It gets you to be patient zero at Cedars-Sinai at 47 years old.”
Moonage Daydream is the first film about David Bowie authorized by the star’s estate, and Morgen was given over five million assets from Bowie’s archives in order to make the film, which is screening at Cannes this week.
Explaining how much Bowie’s work meant to him and how “inspiring” the musician was to him personally, Morgen said that following his health crisis he had an attitude change that was influenced by Bowie.
“And then there was David,” he said. “He kind of provided me with a guide for to how to survive, how to live the most fulfilling life I could possibly live, and I realized that the film would be an opportunity to pass that message down to my children and to the rest of
Matthew Morrison is speaking out.
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David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream says he worked himself so hard on the movie that he suffered a heart attack.Helmed by Brett Morgen (Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Jane), the docufilm promises to take viewers on an “immersive” journey via “sublime, kaleidoscopic imagery, personal archived footage, unseen performances” that are anchored by Bowie’s music and words.It is the first film to be supported by the David Bowie Estate, which granted Morgen unprecedented access to its collection. Press material says that the Estate presented Morgen with more than five million assets in 2017.The director has now said his own life was “out of control” when he began work on the film in January of that year.“Just as I started working on this film, I suffered a massive heart attack.
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