Oasis's reunion becomes a film: here's the trailer for “Don't Look Back In Anger”

A year after their triumphant return to the stage, the reunion of Oasis is becoming a film. The first official trailer has dropped for "Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger", the documentary dedicated to the reconciliation between Liam and Noel Gallagher and to the Oasis Live '25 world tour, one of the most celebrated musical events of 2025. The film will have its world premiere on September 5th at the Venice Film Festival, with both brothers in attendance, ahead of its theatrical release and subsequent streaming debut.
The trailer makes clear from the start that the documentary won't simply be a celebratory account of a record-breaking reunion. Behind the sold-out stadiums and the fans' enthusiasm, the wounds of a sixteen-year split resurface, along with the doubts that accompanied Liam and Noel on their way back together.
"The way it ended... unacceptable... I've never got over it," admits Liam Gallagher in the first few seconds of the trailer, returning to the band's traumatic breakup. Noel, for his part, recalls how the very idea of standing alongside his brother again initially seemed unworkable: "I can't really see myself on a stage with Liam. I've got no desire to go back to all that tension. Is it all going to fall apart again?"

Noel Gallagher's question is anything but rhetorical, given the history of Oasis. The most successful band of the britpop era split up on August 28, 2009, backstage at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris, following yet another clash between the Gallaghers just minutes before the show. That same evening, Noel announced his departure from the band with a message destined to become part of the band's mythology: "It's with some sadness and great relief that I confirm I have left Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer."
Fifteen years of separate careers followed, along with mutual accusations, public insults and a family feud that seemed to have permanently closed the book on Oasis. Then, in the summer of 2024, thirty years after the release of "Definitely Maybe", came the announcement that had until recently seemed impossible: Liam and Noel back together. In 2025 that promise turned into Oasis Live '25, a sold-out world tour that brought the band back in front of massive crowds and turned the reunion into one of the pop and rock events of the year.

"Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger" follows this story from the inside. The film was conceived and written by Steven Knight, creator of "Peaky Blinders", and directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, who previously made "Shut Up And Play The Hits" and "Meet Me In The Bathroom". Thanks to remarkably close access to the band's life, the cameras followed rehearsals, backstage moments and shows, also capturing Liam and Noel's first joint interviews in over twenty years.
The documentary thus aims to tell not only what happened on stage, but also the journey that made the comeback possible. Alongside the spectacular dimension of the tour sits the more intimate, family side of the Gallaghers, with the past inevitably continuing to weigh on the present, and the two brothers forced to confront directly the reasons behind both the split and the reconciliation.

Steven Knight summed up the spirit of the project like this: "The Oasis world tour brought together generations, cultures and countries, speaking of reconciliation to a fractured world. 'Don't Look Back In Anger' isn't just your ticket to the show: it's a backstage pass and a seat at the table as Liam and Noel sit down together for the first time in 15 years and tell it like it is and like it was."
The relationship with the audience is precisely the other major thread running through the film. Alongside the chronicle of the world tour, "Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger" also attempts to gauge the cultural impact of the reunion and to explore what Oasis songs mean today to different generations: from those who lived through the britpop explosion of the Nineties firsthand to those who discovered the band long after it split up.

Produced by Magna Studios and presented by Sony Music Vision in association with Sony Music Entertainment UK, the documentary's producers include Sam Bridger and Guy Heeley. The team also features sound mixers James Mather and Tarn Willers, cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos, and editors George Cragg and Martina Zamolo.
After its world premiere on September 5th in Venice, "Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger" will hit Italian cinemas on September 10th and will also be released in IMAX. A streaming release is expected before the end of the year, on Disney+ in the rest of the world and on Hulu and Disney+ in the United States. Judging at least from the first images, this is a story that has no intention of settling for a happy ending: behind British rock's most sensational recent reunion, Noel's question from the trailer still hangs in the air: "Is it all going to fall apart again?"

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