Better Man - Robbie Williams musical biopic

Gosh, that is a little strange, isn't it?

I too am a massive Robbie fan and I know at one point they were trying to recreate the very successful swing concert that Robbie performed at the Royal Albert Hall concert when he released his Swing Both Ways jazz album for the film.

Steve Pemberton, Alison Steadman, Jonno Davies from Clockwork Orange and Fraser Hadfield from Calendar Girls - good UK theatre representation in the cast!

I didn't realise there was a thread here about it.

I don't understand why people are surprised that Robbie is depicted as a monkey - I read about this before production even started.

It also ties in with his song 'Me and My Monkey' - charting his struggle with fame, addiction and life in general, the monkey being his destructive side.

Yeah, it has been a couple of years and it was an unconfirmed ‘rumour’ when first reported.

Plus a lot of people have this weird view of Robbie; the fact that he was so hugely successful has blinded them to just how off-the-wall he can be as an artist. Particularly if the only song they know of his is Angels. I’ve seen people describe his music as just ‘plodding MOR ballads’, which is absolutely wrong.

I don’t know whether there is some kind of collective amnesia going on or whether he just got talked down so much by a certain section of the press that people’s perception of him was warped.
Or whether it is a basic generational thing, with a younger generation growing up thinking it’s music their mum liked and so must be boring?

It’s like when he turned up on Punk’s Dead, by the punk band Soft Play, and a lot of people were shocked - and I’m sitting here thinking, don’t you remember him doing that punk version of Back for Good where he would jump around the stage screaming during the chorus?

I think the teaser trailer looks really good! Will be looking forward to this one.