As we’ve previously covered here at Tone Deaf, there’s plenty of awesome music documentaries out there, with new ones being made all the time. It’s when those stories become fictionalised that we encounter a problem.
For whatever reason, and it could just be us, but most music movies just seem to suck. There’s a few good biopics out there and we all love Almost Famous, but for the most part, it’s EDM movies starring Zac Efron.
And if it’s not that, then it’s Bill Murray being kinda sorta culturally insensitive as he plays a washed-up band manager walking around Afghanistan. But we may now have reason to rejoice with the new trailer for Kill Your Friends.
Based on the novel by John Niven, Kill Your Friends stars Nicholas Hoult (Skins, Mad Max: Fury Road) as a desperate A&R man at a UK record label during the dizzying heights of ’90s Britpop.
The black comedy recounts all the excesses of the glory days of British music, with a sinister murder subplot. As bands like Oasis and Blur rule the charts, Hoult’s character devises a murderous way to fast-track his career.
“Created by an industry that demands success at any price, as the hits dry up and the industry begins to change, [Hoult] takes the concept of ‘killer tunes’ to a murderous new level in a desperate attempt to salvage his career,” the synopsis reads.
“Kill Your Friends is a dark, satirical and hysterically funny evisceration of the Nineties music business. A time and place populated by frauds, charlatans and bluffers; where ambition is a higher currency than talent, and where it seems anything can be achieved – as long as you want it badly enough.”
The film also features performances from James Corden, Rosanna Arquette, and Craig Roberts, and again it might just be us, but between the synopsis and the trailer, this actually looks like a music film we might want to watch. Amazing.
