Highlights
- George Michael: The Faith Tour drops its first trailer, showing restored 1988 Paris concert footage.
- The concert film opens in international theaters November 4, then in the U.S. and Canada on December 11.
- Longtime George Michael collaborators Andy Morahan and David Austin directed and restored the footage.
Get ready to put your leather jackets back on, because the late pop legend George Michael is storming back to cinemas with a roaring vengeance.
George Michael: The Faith Tour dropped its first footage this morning. It’s not a rehash. It’s 1988, resurrected: two nights at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, shot on 35mm across 14 cameras, sitting in a vault for nearly four decades until somebody finally hit restore.
The trailer (watch below) opens on “Careless Whisper,” pivots into “Father Figure” and “I Want Your Sex,” then lands on the title track itself. Michael is 24, in leather and shades, working a room the size of an arena like it’s his living room.
Bleecker Street CEO Kent Sanderson isn’t underselling it. He calls the film “a defining moment that was made for the big screen.”
That’s not hype for hype’s sake. This is a man at the exact hinge point of his career, mid-transformation from Wham! heartthrob into solo powerhouse, caught on film stock nobody thought would see daylight again.
Helen Parker, an EVP at Universal Pictures Content Group, put it plainly: “George at the height of the Faith tour was simply electrifying.”
Ken Danquah didn’t hold back either, praising “the extraordinary craftsmanship that has gone into bringing this footage to life.”
Before the concert even starts, audiences get “Finding Faith,” a short from Mary McCartney built around a previously unheard Michael interview, plus behind-the-scenes footage from the “Faith” video and stills from photographer Herb Ritts. Call it a prologue, not a warmup act.
The directors aren’t strangers to this material. Andy Morahan made half of Michael’s iconic music videos. David Austin has run the singer’s estate since his death and already co-directed 2017’s “Freedom” documentary, so this isn’t some studio grabbing footage and slapping a logo on it.
George Michael Entertainment’s own statement leans into the mythology, describing the footage as “a turning point that transformed George Michael from a global superstar” into something closer to a permanent cultural fixture.
There’s more than just the film coming. An 18-track live album, also titled The Faith Tour, lands alongside it, stacked with unheard Wham! and solo recordings nobody’s had access to until now.
The official framing calls the whole project “a celebration of ambition and fearless artistry at its peak.”
Fans, unsurprisingly, are not being subtle about their feelings. One commenter summed up the mood for an entire generation: “I’m about to cry, my dream is finally coming true.”
Mark your calendars. The film opens in international theaters November 4, then hits the U.S. and Canada December 11, with IMAX handling early access stateside for the premium-format run.
Ten years after his death, George Michael is about to fill screens the size of buildings, and nobody’s mad about it. Pop nostalgia has produced a lot of cash grabs lately. This one, at least, has the footage to back up the hype.
