Title - Stardust
Studio - Salon Pictures, Wildling Pictures
Starring - Johnny Flynn, Marc Maron, Jena Malone
Writer - Christopher Bell, Gabriel Range
Director - Gabriel Range
Release - 25 November 2020
I don't know if you can do a biopic about a singer, especially one like David Bowie, and not have his songs fill up the movie. Because this one sure didn't work.
Not just that. I think Johnny Flynn was a wrong casting choice. I first saw how ineffective he was as an actor in Emma., where he had zero charisma and zero chemistry with Anya Taylor-Joy. Here, he was no Bowie. He couldn't even capture the focus when he shared screen with Marc Maron, let alone conjure up the magnetism and electricity of Bowie.
The writing for this character was also horrible. There was no way to get behind this character; and every time he acted out, he made the audience run the other way even more.
Maron was the only thing watchable in this movie. Whenever the story jumped back to England, I lost interest completely because that meant Maron was not onscreen.
This was a failed biopic, no wonder there was no buzz at all about it.
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