What's up with the Liverpool documentary?

Echo and the Bunnymen (photo via band's account on X.com)

Wondering what's happened to Pool of Life, the Grant McPhee documentary, mentioned previously, that documents the creative scene in Liverpool in the 1970s, including Ken Campbell's Illuminatus! play and a wave of various bands, such as Echo and the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes? 

There's an update at The Post (of Liverpool), and there's good news and bad news, according to the piece by Laurence Thompson.

The good news: There's a " '95% done' rough cut of Pool of Life, and it already lives up to his previous works — and then some." (The "current plan" is that Pool of Life will be the first of a trilogy of films). 

The bad news? "Sadly, if you want to see Pool of Life, you may have to wait. 'Funding has collapsed in the last two years,' McPhee tells me, describing this as an industry-wide phenomenon. If, say, the Liverpool Film Office are looking for something non-crime-related to invest in, great — if not, much of this unique and fascinating material will remain untold, despite the increasing surfeit of excellent memoirs like Simpson’s. And that really wouldn’t be good for the city."