Swedish metallers Ghost are engaged on a film with “a live performance component”, based on frontman Tobias Forge.
Talking to Steel Hammer, Ghost’s Tobias Forge revealed that the film is presently in improvement, and that the band have already filmed two nights price of live performance footage throughout their current live shows on the Discussion board in California – the second night time of which included a ban on cellphones to keep away from leaks.
Whereas little else is thought of the upcoming movie proper now, Tobias Forge informed Steel Hammer that “it’s going to be a movie with a live performance component. So lots of what you skilled [at the two Los Angeles shows] goes to be a part of this venture.
When requested if Ghost’s upcoming movie will akin to Metallica‘s 2013 cinematic live performance movie By means of The By no means, which included live performance footage alongside a fictional plot starring Dane DeHaan, Forge replied: “In a way that it’s a live performance with one thing else mixed.”
Ghost’s Tobias Forge. Credit score: Mariano Regidor/Redferns
The Ghost frontman additionally spoke of the 2 Discussion board exhibits, saying they have been among the many greatest he’s skilled in his profession. “I’ve by no means seen a crowd work together the best way that they did since I used to be in a membership band. They have been the most effective exhibits I’ve ever completed with Ghost, simply because I didn’t must see these fucking cellphones.”
Ghost most just lately launched a one-off single that includes actor/director Patrick Wilson for Insidious: The Crimson Door. The observe noticed Ghost and Wilson group as much as cowl Shakespears Sister’s ‘Keep’, which performed on the finish of the movie.
Earlier than that, Ghost launched a covers EP, titled ‘Phantomime’ in Might. Their final unique album got here within the type of 2022’s ‘Impera’, which scored a four-star evaluation from NME‘s James McMahon. McMahon wrote: “How the Ghost story performs out now could be a story that will probably be written on empty pages, almost certainly in blood and from the tip of a quill – and it guarantees to be a story extra daring and beguiling than something that has come prior.”