Terry O’Neill, Photographer Of Famous Faye Dunaway Post-Oscars Shot, Becomes Feature Doc Subject

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EXCLUSIVE: Terry O’Neill, the British photographer behind legendary photographs of Faye Dunaway and Elton John, is getting the feature documentary treatment.Oliver Murray, the filmmaker behind docs including Bill Wyman film The Quiet One and Ronnie Scott portrait Ronnie’s, will direct Iconic: The Terry O’Neill Story.The feature-length film will be produced by Round World Studios and Iconic Images, the Authentic Brands-backed company that owns O’Neill’s photographic archive.

Murray’s Orofena Films will take a co-producer credit and it will be exec produced by Terry Byrne and Eric Woollard-White for Round World Studios, which is also financing, and Robin Morgan, President Iconic Images.Production is due to start imminently on the film, which will tell the story of O’Neill, who captured frontline of fame over six decades and died in 2019.From working class London to Hollywood, Terry O’Neill’s candid shots of the famous are now among the world’s most collectable photographic works of artIt will not only chronicle the late photographer’s life, career, and his huge legacy of highly sought-after photographs, many of which now hang in national art galleries and private collections all over the world, it will investigate the photographer’s unique talent to get up close and personal to the most famous people on the planet to earn their trust so much they were happy to drop their guard for him; to capture them in public, in private, on stage or back stage, in their homes, on their tour planes in their most intimate moments and at their most alluring, or vulnerable or powerful.Famous shots taken by O’Neill include one of his ex-wife Faye Dunaway the morning after her 1977 Oscar win for Network (above), as well as shots of Elton John