1. After seeing Rocketman, Bohemian Rhapsody, Sing Street and now recently Elvis, I have become really excited about this upcoming project! I remember I read that it could devote each season to an era of the band, which would be great! It has a tremendous potential to be not only a tribute to the band, but a really well done plot and interesting story covering the culture and history of the late 70s, the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s!

    Has anyone seen the Elvis biopic? For me it felt as if I were on an Elvis concert. There are indeed a lot of elements from it which the U2 series could inspire itself, I hope it makes us feel that we are in a concert. It would be amazing to see Silver and Gold used to narrate what was happening in South Africa, Pride with MLK and the death threats to Bono in Memphis and Arizona, what was happening in Ireland and the world in the 70s and 80s, the 90s and the Cold War, their fall with Pop, and their return as heroes with ATYCLB. And of course all the rich narrative that brings starting the show with four boys forming a school band!
  2. I really forgot about this horrible project. Now i have to forget it again
  3. Elvis was great but Elvis is pretty universally beloved, people hate U2 this thing is going to get killed unless is truly very good.

    Just have my doubts and wish it wasn’t a thing, just another thing for people to point at and criticize.
  4. Elvis movie was good! Austin Butler was incredible.
  5. I have the impression - and I might be wrong on this - that the management tries to make them a "brand"/"product" more than before.
    The TV series. The book. Bono in Sing2. Vegas. The little plastic dolls (forgotten the name).
    I do expect a whole new collection of merchandise/ clothing next year, something beyond the actual tour shirts/merch. They might even try and make turn the band's name into a logo (they have tried to establish logos before, haven't they?).

    I am not jugding.
  6. Originally posted by Papo:I have the impression - and I might be wrong on this - that the management tries to make them a "brand"/"product" more than before.
    The TV series. The book. Bono in Sing2. Vegas. The little plastic dolls (forgotten the name).
    I do expect a whole new collection of merchandise/ clothing next year, something beyond the actual tour shirts/merch. They might even try and make turn the band's name into a logo (they have tried to establish logos before, haven't they?).

    I am not jugding.
    Do you mean kind of similar to Metallica with the clothing?
  7. “Who’s worse with endings? JJ and his TV series or Bono and his speeches?”

    “At least JJ can’t screw up U2 like he did Star Wars and Star Trek….U2 already suck. “

    “Somehow Palpatine returned…but does Bono have to?”

    Going to be ugly in the inane Twitter-verse for the project. Be prepared!
  8. A couple of funny things come to mind:

    The formative minutes/years of The Daltons, and why they stole the old Blues Brothers scene where they say they play both kinds of music: Country and Western.

    How a band with 3 alleged Christians put a group named Adam and Sayten in their movie.

    How they somehow came to the opinion that Pop was supposed to be the party but evolved into a hangover, instead of the landmark album it truly is to quite a few other than me.

    The time Bono decided to make a movie about some Fumbling, Bumbling, mostly Mumbling people walking around a hotel. And how he thought having someone make the audio mostly inaudible and ridiculous. And perhaps have long discussions about how it could be worse than Prince's Graffiti Bridge, and Run-D.M.C.'s Tougher Than Leather, which is a historic accomplishment.

    The time U2 struggled with being relevant when there were almost no acts over 40 getting airplay after 2003 or so. The fact that they have always been relevant never occurred to them. And simply thinking chasing hits in their old age would somehow give them the relevancy that they foolishly craved.
  9. - Daltons are not getting a mention

    - alleged ?

    - seems to be a giod description of Pop

    - dont most bands post 40 struggle ?
  10. Originally posted by pleasegone:

    How they somehow came to the opinion that Pop was supposed to be the party but evolved into a hangover, instead of the landmark album it truly is to quite a few other than me.


    A quite arrogant album and tour rollout (the Kmart conference really makes Bono seem like an a**hole) confronted with mixed reception of the album and the humiliation of the underrehearsed early Popmart shows? I'd say that it's the memory of these emotions that makes them still look at that time without much fondness. But all of this could make for good tv, although it's still really hard to imagine this show actually getting produced, let alone getting as many seasons as it needs to reach this moment in their history.
  11. It's all about the music and the resulting money from broadcasting, sales and marketing rights. U2 want to generate money with it, after 3 years of standstill. There is more money to be made in film.