National Geographic picks up U2 documentary

Bono looks better with his shades on. National Geographic Cinema Ventures are thinking along the same lines – except with those funny looking 3D glasses. Variety reports that the concert documentary U2 3D will make a theatrical run in late January. You can get a Youtube peak of a trailer below – the quality will be somewhat better I imagine in theaters.

Directed by Mark Pellington (The Mothman Prophecies) and Catherine Owens, the takes less than 2 hours out of the 700 hours of footage shot of the band in seven South American cities during February and March. Trekking across Argentina, Mexico, Chile and Brazil, the film's 3-D director of photography Peter Anderson (“T2 3-D: Battle Across Time”) used nine pairs of Sony Cinealta 950 cameras to capture the band with swooping camera angles and kaleidoscopic imagery. The director of cinematography for the film's 2-D footage is Tom Krueger.

This is the second U2 concert film to make it to the big screen – back in 88, Phil Joanou's Rattle & Hum was a companion film to their Joshua Tree album and 87 tour.