seemed unnecessary because the band "already had so many great ballads". Bono subsequently received permission to use the song for The Million Dollar Hotel, a motion picture he was producing. The Edge thought it was the perfect use for the track, since it was not intended for U2's pending record. Rushdie, himself, was very pleased with the song, claiming it had "some of the most beautiful melodies [Bono] had ever come up with." In reference to the song, Rushdie said, "So I always knew, you know, that it wasn't going to be an uptempo foot-tapper, because it's a sad song. I think it sounds like, I hope, one of those big U2 ballads for which Bono's voice, actually, is beautifully well suited." U2 uses Rushdie's lyrics almost word for word, except for omitting the following line: She was my ground, my favorite sound, my country road, my city street, my sky above, my only love, and the ground beneath my feet. Promotion and releases McGuinness said that there was interest in releasing the song to promote Rushdie's novel, well before the completion of All That You Can't Leave Behind; one plan called for the song to be published online to coincide with the 13 April 1999 release of the novel as a promotional tie-in. The song debuted in a performance by Bono and the Edge on a Rushdie-centric episode of the BBC television series Arena that aired on 22 April 1999. After completion of The Million Dollar Hotel, Bono wanted to release the song as a single to promote the film. Accordingly, a music video was created, directed by the film's director Wim Wenders. The video was shot in one day in the Sandyford Mountains near Dublin, Ireland; Wenders used a Sony CineAlta HDW-F900 digital video camera at 24 frames per second with specially developed lenses by Panavision and captured it on the HDCAM format. Plans for a single release changed after Island Records president Marc Marot viewed The Million Dollar Hotel. He thought the film was poor and recounted the uncomfortable experience of sitting next to Bono in a Dublin theatre having to give his opinion. Marot told McGuinness, "You shouldn't go anywhere near it." He offered to include "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" on the film's soundtrack but advocated not releasing the single to avoid drawing attention to a film that he thought would not do well, telling