Daniel Johns of Silverchair to release ‘honest and fantastical’ autobiographical film – trailer

Rasmus King plays teenage rockstar Daniel in What If the Future Never Happened, an upcoming 30-minute film based on the life of Daniel Johns, co-written and co-produced by Daniel’s brother Heath. Soundtracked by Daniel Johns’s latest album FutureNever, and interspersed with orchestral reinterpretations of his Silverchair classics, the musician says it is ‘inspired by the pop culture I was immersed in before a curious case of child stardom. It’s at once the most honest and most fantastical thing I’ve ever done.’

The genre-bending film is set in regional Australia in 1994, ‘mere months before a teenage rockstar called Daniel (Rasmus King) would conquer the global music world’. While escaping bullies, Daniel meets a mysterious figure from the future who ‘will change Daniel’s Tomorrow forever’. With a release date to be announced, a feature-length sequel is already in pre-production. Daniel Johns is due in court on 22 June, after pleading guilty to high-range drink driving following a car crash in March