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Last summer, fans were super excited when brothers Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher announced that Oasis would be going on tour for the first time in 15 years. It was so well-received that fans found themselves fighting for tickets with a sh-tload of scalpers. The reunion tour is going to start in the UK and Ireland this summer (2025) and then hit North America. While the majority of Oasis fans, myself included, were excited for the reunion tour, most people were equally skeptical about whether or not it would actually happen.
At one point, Liam and Noel, who are famous for their fisticuffs, were so committed to behaving that they agreed to avoid doing all press so that they couldn’t be goaded into fighting. Well, things are still so on track that Oasis has agreed to turn their reunion tour into a concert film.
The group Oasis announced Thursday that a film will be produced as the band goes out on a reunion tour this year, created and produced by Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders,” “Locke”) and directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace (“Meet Me in the Bathroom”).
No information about the nature of the film was forthcoming, but the fact that Southern and Lovelace directed a documentary/concert film for LCD Soundsystem, “Shut Up and Play the Hits,” could point toward a similar hybrid format for the Oasis movie.
The Oasis project will be produced by Magna Studios, with Sam Bridger and Guy Heeley serving as producers and Marisa Clifford and Kate Shepherd as executive producers. It will be distributed by Sony Music Vision, with Krista Wegener of Sony Music Vision leading global sales. The announcement said that no release date has been set for the film and there would be no further information about it released for the immediate future.
Besides producing and creating “Peaky Blinders,” Knight also wrote the recent Maria Callas biopic “Maria” starring Angelina Jolie, David Cronenberg’s “Eastern Promises” and Stephen Frears’ “Dirty Pretty Things” and produced, directed and wrote “Locke,” starring Tom Hardy.
The Oasis tour will begin July 4 in Cardiff and is scheduled to run through November.
Okay, okay, I see you two drama queens. If you’re going to go back on tour after a gazillion years, then you may as well monetize the absolute poop out of it, no? Super bonus if the tour’s concert film ends up taking off so much that it can be turned into a theatrical release a la The Eras Tour. Tickets were such a pain to get and there are so many Gen X and Elder Millennial fans out there that would love to watch them in concert again. It’s a great business decision. I just hope that those two crazy kids middle-aged men can keep it together long enough to give the people the Oasis reunion show that they deserve. And, if they can’t, then bonus points for the millions more that will tune in to watch whatever crazy sh-t goes down both behind the scenes and on stage.
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