The first trailer for the new incarnation of A Star Is Born is out, and we want to see the movie.
Right. Now.
The film, directed by Bradley Cooper and starring Cooper and Lady Gaga, is the story of a man on the downhill slope of his career when he finds a young, undiscovered singing talent with star potential.
Love, alcoholism, fame and loss ensue.
Not that you didn’t know that from the 1937 original movie and 1954 and 1976 remakes, which starred Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, Judy Garland and James Mason, and Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, respectively.
Here’s a nice tidbit: Not sure where all the scenes in the trailer were filmed, but some of the live concert footage in the movie was shot at 2017’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio. Fans paid $10 (Dh37) each to be extras, and the money went to Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation.
“It’s a big swing, this movie — I totally get that,” first-time director Cooper told the theatre-owner audience in April at Warner Bros. Pictures’ CinemaCon presentation. “But you can’t control what moves you. ... You can’t really contrive or manufacture something that moves you, and I always wanted to tell a love story.”
A Star Is Born is scheduled for an October 5 release in the US.
