Bono’s ‘Stories of Surrender’ Documentary Heading to Apple TV+

Bono’s Stories of Surrender stage show will come to the small screen this May as a new documentary heading to Apple TV+.

Bono: Stories of Surrender, featuring never-before-seen footage from the U2 singer’s April 2023 residency at the Beacon Theatre, where he staged a one-man show in support of Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, a memoir told through 40 U2 songs.

Apple TV+ added of the documentary, directed by Andrew Dominik (Blonde, Nick Cave’s One More Time With Feeling), Bono “pulls back the curtain on a remarkable life and the family, friends, and faith that have challenged and sustained him, revealing personal stories about his journey as a son, father, husband, activist and rockstar.”

The documentary, out May 30 on the streaming service, will also feature Bono’s unique, stripped-down performances of some of the U2 songs featured in the stage show.

“When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I’d previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me,” Bono said in a statement prior to its release in 2022. 

“Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept. A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book. I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. In the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my life as an activist. Surrender is the story of one pilgrim’s lack of progress … With a fair amount of fun along the way.”

Bono: Stories of Surrender will also arrive as the first-ever feature film catered to Apple Vision Pro and its Apple Immersive Video, “a remarkable media format recorded in 8K with Spatial Audio to produce a 180-degree video that places viewers onstage with Bono and in the center of his story,” Apple said, “the latest example of Bono’s enduring commitment to innovation.”

Additionally, Bono’s memoir will be released as an abridged and updated paperback edition, reconfigured to mirror the stage show and including a new introduction by the singer.

From Rolling Stone US.