- Title: Concert film 'Rite Here Rite Now' recounts saga of Swedish rockers Ghost
- Date: 18th June 2024
- Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (JUNE 18, 2024) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** FORGE POSING FOR PHOTOS (SOUNDBITE) (English) SINGER AND "RITE HERE RITE NOW" WRITER, CREATOR AND CO-DIRECTOR, TOBIAS FORGE, SAYING: "I wanted to make a live concert film that was sort of a fiction but also a film that you'd never seen really before, you know? There's a lot
- Embargoed: 2nd July 2024 20:59
- Keywords: Alex Ross Perry Ghost Ghost Sweden Ghost band Ghost concert film Ghost concert movie Rite Here Rite Now Rite Here Rite Now film Tobias Forge
- Location: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM / VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- City: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM / VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- Country: UK
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Europe,Film
- Reuters ID: LVA003137017062024RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Swedish rock and metal band Ghost bring their theatricality to the screen with the new feature-length spectacle "Rite Here Rite Now".
Shot over their two sold-out shows at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California in September 2023, the film intertwines Ghost's live performances with a narrative story based on the Grammy-winning group's lore.
Segments filmed backstage in-between songs feature costume changes and interaction with staff and characters central to the band's backstory.
Formed in Linkoping, Sweden, in 2006, Ghost is led by singer-songwriter Tobias Forge, who wears a prosthetic mask and a costume to portray fictional demonic popes while performing. He is joined by instrumentalists known as Nameless Ghouls and Ghoulettes, whose faces are also covered with masks.
"I wanted to make a live concert film that was sort of fiction but also a film that you'd never seen really before. There's a lot of concert films but I don't think that there is one exactly like the one that I did," Forge said, as he premiered the film in London on Tuesday (June 18).
"Rite Here Rite Now" is directed by Forge and U.S. filmmaker Alex Ross Perry, best known for movies "Her Smell" and "Golden Exits" and his music videos for Maya Hawke, Pavement and Ghost.
Perry said he jumped at the chance to work with Forge again, volunteering to help turn his vision into reality.
The result is a film made for Ghost fans.
"This is an hour and 40 minutes of a concert and 30 minutes of storytelling and a bunch of other goodies. It's a concert movie that has narrative spoilers for the fans," said Perry.
"The film is based on a certain degree of lore that we've been telling over the few years of, sort of, making episodes," said Forge.
"The crux was making a film where that backstory was somehow told in a way that was kind of understandable and comprehensive and, you know, so you don't have to see the episodes," he said, adding: "I really hope that the fans come out saying like 'oh, I totally get it even though I have never seen an episode and I was entertained to death', you know, that's the goal."
The 43-year-old, who has continuously changed his appearance over the band's nearly two-decade tenure to depict various versions of his Papa Emeritus and Cardinal Copia anti-pope personas, teased another incarnation was on the way, together with new music.
"There are changes, there is music on the horizon. But all good things to those who wait," he said.
"Rite Here Rite Now" is out in cinemas globally from June 20 to 23.
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