The movie musical is a long tradition in Hollywood, but off the top of my head, I can't think of too many movies in the genre that tackled the end of the world. That's about to change with the 2024 new movie The End, a star-studded classical musical from an acclaimed documentary director making his narrative debut.
Director Joshua Oppenheimer broke out with this pair of Oscar-nominated documentaries, The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, which provided a look into atrocities that took place in Indonesia in unique but profound ways. It's been 10 years since The Look of Silence, but Oppenheimer is now putting his own spin on the musical genre with this original idea, which he also co-wrote with Rasmus Heisterberg and collaborated on the music for with Joshua Schmidt.
