Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight to produce Oasis reunion tour film

Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders, will oversee a film documenting Oasis's 2025 reunion tour.
Knight is described as the creator of the film and will produce it, though it is being directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace.
The pair have pedigree with music documentaries, including with Oasis's former arch-rivals Blur – they directed No Distance Left to Run, which documented Blur's 2009 reunion tour.
As well as making music videos for Franz Ferninand, Björk and Arctic Monkeys, they also directed LCD Soundsystem's 2012 documentary-concert film hybrid Shut Up and Play the Hits, then returned to the band's New York hipster milieu in 2022 for Meet Me in the Bathroom, which documented the city's buzzy 00s indie scene.
The film is being made via production company Magna Studios, who have produced acclaimed music films such as Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now and the Nick Cave docudrama 20,000 Days on Earth.
No further details have been given about the focus of the film, but Southern and Lovelace's style suggests there will be intimate footage alongside the gig itself. No Distance Left to Run featured frank discussion of the differences between Blur's Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon; Shut Up and Play the Hits documented what was billed as LCD Soundsystem's final gig (the band have since re-formed) but also filmed frontman James Murphy the morning after, milling around his flat and becoming emotional as he confronts the end of the group.
Oasis's tour, entitled Live '25, kicks off on 4 July in Cardiff, and will encompass 41 gigs across the UK, Ireland, north and South America, east Asia and Australia, concluding on 23 November in São Paulo. It will bring the frequently warring Gallagher brothers back together for the first time since an acrimonious split in 2009.
NME reported this week that sources close to the group claimed the full band lineup would be the brothers plus original guitarist Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs, along with Andy Bell (bass), Gem Archer (guitar) and Joey Waronker (drums).
An unimpressed Liam Gallagher wrote on X in response: 'It's not the lineup reveal I'm bothered about I'll reveal that to you in a minute I'm more bothered about the line where it says a source close to the band and tour that really causes me a great deal of concern.' He jokingly wrote his own lineup, featuring four of Oasis's former drummers.
The tour film adds another project to a busy recent slate for Knight, who has been the writer-producer of TV series This Town, The Veil and A Thousand Blows in the last two years.
He has also written and produced The Immortal Man, a film which continues the Peaky Blinders saga, filmed for Netflix in autumn 2024 with a release date yet to be announced.

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