The people behind the critically acclaimed Amy Winehouse documentary Amy are now turning their attention to Oasis.
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Renowned documentary director Asif Kapadia is to work on a new film charting the rise of Oasis, reports Deadline. Until then, one can only imagine that if the documentary isn’t to the Gallaghers’ liking as Amy was not to Mitch Winehouse, we’ll be hearing about it.
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll’s Mat Whitecross will direct the film, having previously taken charge of not-dissimilar material in the shape of Spike Island, the 2012 feature about a group of music fans desperate to get tickets for the Stone Roses’ Spike Island concert in 1990.
Oasis was formed in Manchester in 1991 and released such top-selling albums as Definitely Maybe, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? and Be Here Now before disbanding in 2009 amid internal strife between the Gallagher brothers.
Working with executive-director Mat Whitecross, the filmmakers have reportedly been given “unprecedented access to the band and unseen archive footage” which should make tackling the most turbulent split in recent rock history slightly easier.
Andrew Orr of Independent Films said in a statement, “Oasis are without doubt one of the classic British rock bands selling 70 million albums worldwide and defining the sound of a whole era”.
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The brothers – who had hits with songs such as Wonderwall, Don’t Look Back In Anger and Roll With It – have since continued making music separately, with Liam using the moniker Beady Eye until the band broke up in 2014, while Noel went on to form his solo project in Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.
