WATCH: The First Trailer For The David Bowie Biopic Is Here

The first trailer for the upcoming David Bowie biopic has been released today. 

Set in 1971, Stardust focuses on the late UK icon's path to his alter ego, Ziggy Stardust. The film stars Johnny Flynn as Bowie, alongside Marc Maron as Mercury Records publicist Ron Oberman. 

The trailer has copped criticism online today, with Bowie fans pointing out the lack of music from the artist, that his estate has not authorised the project and that Flynn does not resemble the legendary performer closely enough. 

“I set out to make a film about what makes someone become an artist; what actually drives them to make their art," director Gabriel Range said back in April. 

"That someone is David Bowie, a man we’re used to thinking about as the star he became, or as one of his alter egos: Ziggy Stardust; Aladdin Zane; The Thin White Duke. Someone I only ever saw at a great distance, behind a mask; a godlike, alien presence.

"Even in his perfectly choreographed death, he didn’t seem like a regular human being.”

Watch the trailer below.