Imagine Dragons Frontman: HBO Doc On Mormon Treatment Of LGBTQ community

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HBO Documentary Films has acquired the U.S. TV rights to the powerful documentary BELIEVER, from Live Nation Productions. Directed by Don Argott (“DeLorean,” “Batman & Bill,” “The Art of the Steal”), the film follows Mormon Dan Reynolds, frontman for the Grammy Award-winning band Imagine Dragons, as he takes on a new mission to explore how the Mormon Church treats its LGBTQ members. With the rising suicide rate amongst teens in the state of Utah, his concern with the church’s policies sends him on an unexpected path of acceptance and change.

BELIEVER will have its world premiere in the Documentary Premieres section of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and will debut this summer on HBO.

The film documents this past year of Reynolds’ life during the process of organizing the first-ever LoveLoud Festival concert in Orem, Utah, to benefit such gay rights organizations as GLAAD and the Trevor Project, among others. While BELIEVER takes a broader look at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ treatment of LGBTQ members, it also focuses on the suicide rate in the community, which has skyrocketed in the last decade.

Reynolds hopes BELIEVER will continue to force discussion of gay rights within Mormonism on a larger scale. “LoveLoud reached 20,000 people in Utah, which is really small compared to the number of people who need to be reached,” he notes. “I think the reason the film needs to happen is because I feel like this is a way that nobody can turn their heads away.”

Hans Zimmer composed the score for BELIEVER and contributed to one of the two original songs Reynolds wrote for the film, giving music an integral role in the documentary.

https://medium.com/hbo-cinemax-pr/hbo-documentary-films-acquires-u-s-tv-rights-to-believer-ahead-of-its-sundance-premiere-becedcca4d6d

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Dan Reynolds has spoken out before about his struggle with faith and the way it clashed with LGBTQ rights. If you want to learn more about his background and the reasons that drive his activism, please watch the video below. For those who don't want to watch all of it, skip to 6:04 where he talks about his missionary work as a mormon.

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Official poster was released:

 

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YES! 

That is actually amazing 

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Mormon Boyz, the series 

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watch this^^^^^^^

and listen his album Excommunication

it’s an amazing piece

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Mormon is such a disgusting religion. My whole family was literally sexually, mentally, and physically abuse because of them. They used to my parents that they're going to hell because they were brown . I would like to see them take on THAT! 

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HBO Documentary Films has acquired U.S. TV rights to Believer, a documentary in which Reynolds investigates how the Mormon Church treats its LGBTQ members.

Reynolds, his wife and fellow musicians Aja Volkman and Neon Trees frontman Tyler Glenn will be featured. Reynolds, before his life in Imagine Dragons, was raised Mormon and became concerned about the faith’s limitations for LGBTQ members. He hopes Believer will help spread awareness and change.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/events/sundance/8086028/imagine-dragons-hbo-dan-reynolds-sundance?utm_source=twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

So proud of Dan, he's one of the very few straight people who raises awareness on gay rights. Dan has a wife, but he's always spoken in favour of the LGBTQ community and how the members within are treated, this time he's releasing a whole new documentary on it, entitled Believer.

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There'll also be two original songs, and Hans Zimmer made the score. He also collaborated with Dan on one of those two songs

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"He hopes Believer will help spread awareness and change."

I've just realized the song has a meaning 

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5 minutes ago, Bloody Grammys said:

"He hopes Believer will help spread awareness and change."

I've just realized the song has a meaning 

I'm sure he's talking about the documentary, also entitled Believer.

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Just now, Bradley said:

I'm sure he's talking about the documentary, also entitled Believer.

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13 minutes ago, Bloody Grammys said:

I've just realized the song has a meaning 

Every song has a meaning sis 

Yes, even Closer 

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32 minutes ago, Bloody Grammys said:

"He hopes Believer will help spread awareness and change."

I've just realized the song has a meaning 

The song has a ton of meaning though. Struggling with faith, dealing with mental health and depression, coping with physical pain (Dan has a chronic condition called ankylosing spondylitis, which causes a lot of physical pain on a daily basis) and more. All of their songs are extremely autobiographical. Just actually listen to the lyrics and you'll find a lot of meaning .

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That sounds interesting. I may check it out.

 

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2 hours ago, Irrelevant said:

Every song has a meaning sis 

Yes, even Closer 

Well a hidden meaning 

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2 hours ago, Why am I on GGD said:

The song has a ton of meaning though. Struggling with faith, dealing with mental health and depression, coping with physical pain (Dan has a chronic condition called ankylosing spondylitis, which causes a lot of physical pain on a daily basis) and more. All of their songs are extremely autobiographical. Just actually listen to the lyrics and you'll find a lot of meaning .

I didn't know any of this... Wow I might give them a chance now