Casting
Ewan McGregor .... Curt Wild
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers .... Brian Slade
Christian Bale .... Arthur Stuart
Toni Collette .... Mandy Slade
Eddie Izzard .... Jerry Devine
Emily Woof .... Shannon
Michael Feast .... Cecil
Micko Westmoreland .... Jack Fairy
Plot Summary
In 1984, British newspaper reporter Arthur Stuart is investigating the career of 1970s glam rock star Brian Slade, who was heavily influenced in his early years by American rock singer Curt Wild, whose show was quite crazy for his time.
1971: Glamrock explodes all over the world and challanges the seriousness within the flowerpower generation by means of glitter and brutal music. Brian Slade, a young rockstar, inspires numerous teenage boys and girls to paint their nails and explore their own sexuality. In the end Slade destroys himself. Unable to escape the role he created for himself, he plots his own murder. When his fans discovers that the murder is a fake, his star falls and he is forgotten about. 1984: Arthur, a journalist working for a New York newspaper, gets assigned the story about the fake murder of Brian Slade. When Arthur was young and grew up in Manchester, he was more than a fan of Slade. Reluctantly he accepts the assignment and starts to investigate what happened his old glamrock hero.
Other
Unofficial story of the alleged relationship between David Bowie and Iggy Pop.
Soundtrack features songs by T. Rex, Marc Bolan, Brian Eno, Placebo, Iggy Pop [I think he did the song originally but Ewan McGregor sang it in the movie], Thom Yorke, Steve Harley, and some really nasally singing by Johnathan Rhys-Meyers.
