Official Trailer for Rock Band Concert Film ‘Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now’
by Alex Billington
May 9, 2024
Source: YouTube
“This is not a tale about death, but one of life.” Rock on! An official trailer is out for a concert doc + horror film titled Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now, made by filmmaker Alex Ross Perry and the band’s Tobias Forge. The film is a creation of the Swedish rock band called Ghost. Combining live performance from Ghost’s Kia Forum shows in Los Angeles in 2023 with a narrative story that picks up plot threads from the band’s long-running webisode series. Rite Here Rite Now was shot over the course of Ghost’s two sold-out shows at Los Angeles’ hallowed Kia Forum. Ghost’s debut feature film combines performances from the Re-Imperatour U.S.A. 2023 with a narrative. “Whether you’re a devoted disciple looking to relive treasured memories of the Ghost live spectacle or among the curious uninitiated, Rite Here Rite Now will put you right there: putting your phones down and living in the moment—as a shadow of uncertainty looms—completely spellbound and in the thrall of this bombastic yet intimate cinematic portrait of Ghost.” Starring Maralyn Facey as Sister Imperator & Alan Ursillo as Papa Nihil, with the band including Papa Emeritus IV. See the Papa below.
Official trailer (+ poster) for Tobias Forge & Alex Ross Perry’s Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now, on YouTube:
Shot over the course of Ghost’s two sold-out shows at Los Angeles’ hallowed Kia Forum, Rite Here Rite Now fully immerses viewers in the technicolor melodrama of the vaunted live ritual that has helped to propel Sweden’s foremost theatrical rock export to GRAMMY-winning, chart-topping, arena-headlining status the world over. Rite Here Rite Now is, however, so much more than a concert movie. Ghost’s debut feature film combines live performance from the two-night finale of the band’s Re-Imperatour U.S.A. 2023 with a narrative story that picks up plot threads from the band’s long-running webisode series. The result is an utterly unique phantasmagorical blend: Flesh and bone renditions of favorites from all five of Ghost’s albums as well as the RIAA platinum-certified “Mary On A Cross” and more are interwoven with the silver screen debuts of a few faces familiar to the band’s legions of fans worldwide—all interacting behind the scenes with Ghost’s “Papa Emeritus IV”, as his future and fate lay in the hands of the Ministry.
Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now is directed by Ghost’s Tobias Forge and American indie filmmaker Alex Ross Perry (director of the films Impolex, The Color Wheel, Listen Up Philip, Queen of Earth, Golden Exits, Her Smell previously). Produced by Kristen Mulderig, Rick Sales, Craig Butta, Jonas Åkerlund; and by Popecorn Cinematic Pictures. Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now is set for a theatrical release worldwide in theaters for two-nights only on June 20th & June 22nd, 2024 this summer. For more info + tickets, visit the official site.
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