photography Harley WeirFilm & TV / NewsFilm & TV / NewsRihanna’s new documentary is set to release very soonDirector Peter Berg said the film, announced back in 2016, should only be a couple of months awayShareLink copied ✔️August 18, 2018August 18, 2018TextThom Waite Way back in 2016 it was announced that we were getting a Rihanna documentary from Peter Berg, director of Lone Survivor and 2012’s Battleship (the film that saw the singer in her first major acting role). Since then there’s been little news on the film, but Berg has revealed in a recent interview that we can expect to see it very soon. In a SlashFilm interview to promote his new movie Mile 22, posted August 17, the director says, “the movie will be out in about a month and a half, two months we’ll be able to start showing it,” before going on to detail Rihanna’s brilliance (as if we didn’t already know). “I think she’s an extraordinary young woman and [the film] really is kind of a pretty comprehensive profile of what goes in to making her this talent that she is,” he says. “The work ethic, the talent, luck, the hustle, the vision. She’s a really, really interesting woman.” This sentiment was reflected in the film’s original promotional materials from 2016, which said it would offer an “unfiltered look into Rihanna’s life and how she’s ascended to become a global icon”. While Berg has presumably been working away on the documentary, Rihanna’s been spotted in Havana, Cuba, potentially working on a new film with Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino). Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREDazed x MUBI Cinema Club’s season finale: Father Mother Sister Brother6LILITH6: Inside the witchy femme mall cult of Forbidden FruitsOnMeet the creatives turning up the heat in Lagos with Burna Boy and OnDJ Ahmet, a coming-of-ager about an EDM-obsessed teen sheep farmerWho is Takashi Miike? An intro to Japanese cinema’s cult provocateurThe Good Boy is a sick, twisted nightmare about delinquent teensArco, a striking, soul-stirring sci-fi about lonely kids in 2075Bill Skarsgård and Gus Van Sant on their scrappy thriller Dead Man’s WireScarlet: Anime legend Mamoru Hosoda’s trippy new take on Hamlet7 unmissable films from South by Southwest 2026 Why fans are turning against Timothée ChalametOscars 2026: The biggest snubs from this year’s nominationsEscape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy