Michael Gracey talks portraying Robbie Williams as a CGI monkey in his musical biopic 'Better Man' in a new interview.
Singer Robbie Williams, who now has his biopic, Better Man, played a part in convincing Hugh Jackman to do The Greatest ...
Michael Gracey reveals the unlikely origin story for ‘Better Man,’ which opens the Palm Springs International Film Festival ...
The pair discuss why the lead is a computer-generated chimpanzee and the audience’s appetite for a pop star’s problems ...
Gracey kicked off the session by recounting his unexpected introduction to Robbie Williams, courtesy of Hugh Jackman. While filming The Greatest Showman, Jackman couldn’t stop referencing Williams as ...
Australian writer-director Michael Gracey was already several years into developing “The Greatest Showman,” his grand and ambitious musical biopic that took the filmmaker eight years to ...
The Australian filmmaker on telling Williams’ lifestory with a CGI chimp, the toxic nature of fame and how the former Take That star saved his debut feature film The Greatest Showman ...
Better Man is based on the true story of the meteoric rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable resurgence of British pop superstar ...
He had 14 No. 1 singles in Britain, but is not well known in America. In the new movie “Better Man,” he’s played by a CGI ...
Michael Gracey’s film charts Williams’ early life and rise to fame –– at least in the UK –– by having its subject portrayed by a CG ape.