Here's everything we know about J.J. Abrams' U2 Netflix Series

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22 Mar 2022, 07:36

A new television series about U2 is in the works from director J.J. Abrams.

As well as having a hand in the making of many other sci-fi greats, Abrams helmed a run of Star Wars movies, offering us the mind-melting possibility of a meeting between Bono and R2-D2.

Okay, that won't happen, but helmed by Abrams' Bad Robot imprint, it's already looking like the Irish giant's first biopic is in capable hands.

Rumour has it that the script is being written by Anthony McCarten, the man who put the Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, on page. McCarten has previously received best adapted screenplay Oscar nominations for his work on Theory of Everything and Two Popes. Two other films he wrote, Darkest Hour and Theory of Everything, were also nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards.

More news on the project is scant, but The Hollywood Reporter, er, report that the band themselves are “expected to be involved and sanction the project.”

The US publication added: “Plot details are also being kept under wraps.”

Okay, yeah, but if we can't have R2-D2 and Bono, can we at least have Chewbacca and The Edge?