News Summary

• Bao Nguyen's new documentary, BTS: The Return, follows the band as they recorded their new album Arirang and prepared for their much-anticipated comeback.
• The Vietnamese-American filmmaker has made his reputation on incisive, compulsively watchable documentaries that unpack a wide range of cultural phenomena.
• Nguyen talked to GQ about the long road to making the documentary, being a fly-on-the-wall while BTS had passionate debates about creative decisions, and how he earned the trust of the seven members to tell their story through the film.