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- 24 Hour Party People returns to cinemas 24 years after its 2002 release, with director Michael Winterbottom taking reader questions for a Q&A interview.
- The film charts Manchester's music scene from the Sex Pistols' 1976 Lesser Free Trade Hall gig through Factory Records, Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays, and the Haçienda — the story before Oasis took over.
- Steve Coogan stars as the late Factory Records boss and broadcaster Tony Wilson, alongside Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson, Andy Serkis, and John Simm.
- Winterbottom studied English at Oxford and began in television in the late 1980s, directing documentaries about Ingmar Bergman and episodes of Boon and Cracker before his 1995 feature debut.
- His filmography includes Butterfly Kiss (1995), Jude (1996), Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), Wonderland (1999), The Claim (2000), 9 Songs (2004), and 2010's The Killer Inside Me.
- The director is currently in production on The Trip to the Northern Lights, a fifth Trip instalment reuniting Coogan and Rob Brydon for more eating, bickering, and celebrity impressions across Scandinavia and the Nordic countries.
Why it matters: The 24 Hour Party People reissue lands while Winterbottom is still filming a fifth Trip instalment, confirming the 24-year veteran remains active. The 6pm Sunday 4 October deadline is the only stated window for readers to question a director whose career has stretched from Welcome to Sarajevo to Guantánamo docudrama, anchoring the Manchester mythology that preceded Oasis.
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