Frans Schellekens/RedfernsAlmost 20 years after his death, we’re going to get a feature-length documentary about the late INXS lead singer Michael Hutchenece.
Director Richard Lowenstein will both direct and produce the documentary. He goes way back with the band: he directed the music videos for “What You Need,” “Listen Like Thieves,” “Need You Tonight/Mediate,” “Never Tear Us Apart,” “New Sensation” and other hits, as well as the short documentaries INXS: Swing and Other Stories and INXS: Kick: The Video Flick.
“I have been working on the definitive documentary film journey into the heart and soul of this complex, shy, poetic and exceptionally charismatic man for many years,” Lowenstein said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “To be able to embark on this film now with such great partners as UMG and INXS is extremely exciting and I know that together we are going to tell this story like no one else can.”
Hutchence died in his hotel room in Sydney, Australia in 1997. His death was ruled a suicide.
The documentary is expected to premiere late next year.
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