Premiere of Lil Nas X’s TIFF documentary delayed due to bomb threat


Lil Nas X attends the premiere of “Lil Nas
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty ImagesEven a bomb threat won’t stop Lil Nas from walking the red carpet.
The world premiere of the rapper’s documentary Lil Nas X: Long live Montero at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, September 9, experienced an unexpected slowdown in speed. Due to a bomb threat, the event was delayed by 30 minutes. Us weekly can confirm.
Co-directors of documentaries Carlos Lopez Estrada And Zac Manuel and film editor Andrew Morrow were the first to arrive at the event. But as Lil Nas
“This evening we were alerted by the Toronto Police Service to an investigation near the red carpet Lil Nas X: Long live Montero Screening,” said Judy LungTIFF’s vice president of public relations and communications said in a statement Us. “Our usual security measures remained in place during this time and the review commenced with a slight delay. To our knowledge, this was a general threat that was not directed at the film or the artist.”
diversity was the first to announce the news.
The premiere began without incident after the delay. The “Old Town Road” singer was joined by his family on the red carpet and appeared shirtless, wearing a black jacket and black pants. He shared several snaps from the evening on Instagram with the caption, “Long live.”

Lil Nas X in “Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero.”
Courtesy of TIFFLil Nas X: Long live Montero follows the 24-year-old on his Long live Montero Trip. The “Industry Baby” singer announced his first world tour in an Instagram post on April 28, 2022, and opened the concert series in Detroit the following September.
According to the TIFF website, the documentary “offers a joyful immersion into the world of a groundbreaking artist and the fans who have accompanied him through this transformation. Seeing concertgoers express what it means to share space with a black, gay superstar, with his fellow fans, and with the thousands of families brought into their world by the power of pop music is a valuable image of how Transformation happens.”
Lil Nas X: Long live Montero is planned for more public demonstrations at TIFF this week. There is no release date for the documentation yet.