With production problems and estimated costs of $1.2 million the band cancelled the plans for December concerts in South America. Following the success of Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky, which had been filmed in Denver four years earlier, the band hoped that "lightning might strike twice". It was later decided that the Chicago venue wasn't suitable, and instead U2 used the McNichols Sports Arena in Denver to film.
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The movie was originally titled "U2 In The Americas" and the band planned to film in Chicago and Buenos Aires later in the year.
Joanou met the band again in Dublin to discuss the plans and again in France in September before the band chose him as director. Joanou suggested they hire Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, or George Miller to direct the film. While in Hartford during the 1987 The Joshua Tree Tour, U2 met film director Phil Joanou who made an unsolicited pitch to the band to make a feature-length documentary about the tour. U2 manager Paul McGuinness, explaining his original motivation to make a movie. I had always admired Colonel Parker and Brian Epstein for realising that music could capture the imagination of the whole world." "I was very keen on the idea of going wide at a time like that, just seeing how big this thing could get. 7.2 Additional musicians (field recordings and tapes).8.2 Additional musicians (field recordings and tapes).
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