New “honest” Avicii documentary in the works for 2023

Avicii’s estate have announced a new documentary focusing on the life and music of the late musician.

The documentary is slated to arrive in 2023, as reported by Billboard, and includes “newly produced material” along with interviews with family, friends and colleagues, behind-the-scenes footage, archival clips and interviews with Avicii himself.

The film remains untitled, but will spotlight the “music and the artist who defined an era and changed the world of music forever, and is an up-close, intimate, and epic story about his unparalleled successes and his struggles to cope with the pressure.”

Björn Tjärnberg and Candamo Film will produce the documentary in tandem with Swedish National television. Swedish director Henrik Burman will shoot the film. Burman and Tjärnberg worked on Yung Lean: In My Head in 2020, a documentary about Swedish cult rap star Yung Lean.

“My goal is to provide an honest and new perspective on both the artist Avicii and Tim’s life,” said Burman. “I want this to be a film that surprises the audience and challenges the public’s image of Sweden’s biggest international artist of today and, in doing so, also shine a light on what his music has meant to so many people.”

This will be the second documentary on Avicii after 2017’s True Stories which captured him tapering his touring schedule off when he was notoriously burnt out from a relentless run of shows. The documentary stirred up controversy and was removed from Netflix.

The iconic Swedish musician was honoured with a Google Doodle of ‘Wake Me Up’ ahead of what would have been his 32nd birthday. The gesture also marked National Suicide Prevention Week, as the EDM trailblazer — whose real name was Tim Bergling — took his own life in April, 2018.

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