U2 announces HBO concert special and documentary

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U2 will produce not one, but two concert specials from their ongoing iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE world tour. Both will be produced by HBO.
On Nov. 7, HBO will debut a a behind-the-scenes documentary about the band and the team that worked with them to conceptualize and create the tour. The following week, the network will present the tour’s Nov. 14 performance at Bercy Arena in Paris and aired exclusively on HBO that same day. Both the documentary and the concert will be available on HBO GO and HBO NOW simultaneous to the programs’ HBO world premieres.
The documentary will have interviews with Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr., as well as the supporting cast of Willie Williams, who has created tour concepts for the band for more than 30 years, award-winning designer Es Devlin, newly signed on for this tour, production director Jake Berry, Audio Director Joe O’Herlihy, executive director Gavin Friday, set designer Ric Lipson, and others.
The special also explores the challenges and setbacks U2 faced in the months before tour rehearsals began in April, including Bono’s serious bicycle accident in New York last fall.
The documentary is produced and directed by Davis Guggenheim (“An Inconvenient Truth,” “Waiting For Superman,” “It Might Get Loud”) and produced by Shannon Dill with U2 manager Guy Oseary serving as Executive Producer.
The concert will be produced by Done And Dusted with Executive Producers Hamish Hamilton, Simon Pizey, Davis Guggenheim and Guy Oseary. It will be directed by Hamish Hamilton, who has worked with the band since 2001.