Joe Strummer: the Future Is Unwritten

A tribute to Joe Strummer, the famous leader of the Clash, who died in 2002. Julian Temple has based his film on a vast repertory of archive material, interviews, photographs, audio recordings, animated drawings and films he himself shot starting in 1976. The result is a complex portrait of one of the greatest rock stars ever, a restless, vagabond artist who relives in the memories of many people: Bono, Martin Scorsese, Jim Jarmusch, Johnny Depp, Mick Jones and Joe Ely.

“To me Joe Strummer was a philosopher, he really distilled times we’ve all lived through. What he discussed and thought about was the nature of being human, what freedom was about: a lot of things that are being wiped out of the way we live now. His words to me were: ‘Thinking is the reason for getting up in the morning.’ So while on one level this is a film about loss, it is equally a celebration of all the things Joe stood for. He loved breaking the rules. Contradiction was his nature and it was crucial to me that the film would show that.”

regia/director Julian Temple
fotografia/director of photography Ben Cole
montaggio/film editor Niven Howie, Mark Reynolds, Tobias Zaldua
musica/music Ian Neil
suono/sound Ben Meechan
interpreti/cast Bono, Steve Buscemi, Terry Chimes, John Cooper Clarke, John Cusack, Peter Cushing, Johnny Depp, Matt Dillon, Dick Evans, Alasdair Gillis, Ian Gillis, Topper Headon, Jim Jarmusch, Mick Jones, Steve Jones, Anthony Kiedis, Don Letts, Bernie Rhodes, Martin Scorsese, Joe Strummer
produttore/producer Anna Campeau, Alan Moloney, Amanda Temple
produzione/production Nitrate Films, Parallel Film Productions
coproduttore/coproducer Orlagh Collins, Stephan Mallmann, Susan Mullen
distribuzione/distribution Ripley’s Film