![]() As an executive producer of the exhaustive, four-hour Grateful Dead documentary “Long Strange Trip,” the 79-year-old Oscar winner has more than a working knowledge of the band’s history. If a Grateful Dead movie is going to be made, it’s reassuring that Scorsese, one of the great directors of our time (“Taxi Driver,” “Raging Bull,” “The King of Comedy,” “Goodfellas”), will be making it. The post got some 5,400 comments and nearly 222,000 likes. ![]() On Instagram, he shared the news with his 3.3 million followers along with praying hands and a skull emoji. ![]() “I’m hopeful but not optimistic that Scorsese can capture some Garcia’s essence.”īrian Dowling/Getty ImagesJonah Hill is set to play Jerry Garcia in Martin Scorsese’s Grateful Dead biopic.Īnother source close to the band says it would be deeply surprising if the filmmakers could capture even a 10th of Garcia’s magnetic personality.ĭespite that rather daunting challenge, the 37-year-old Hill, an Oscar winner for his supporting role in the Scorsese-directed “The Wolf of Wall Street,” is obviously looking forward to the possibility of playing the charismatic guitarist, singer and songwriter. “I love Scorsese and I love how he shoots and uses music (both in his docs and story films), but I’m still very afraid of what he’ll do to the Grateful Dead story,” Blair Jackson, author of “Garcia: An American Life,” tells me in a direct message. Since then, he’s become a kind of sainted figure, so you can be sure that any movie about him will be the subject of intense discussion and debate among the band’s legions of devoted Deadheads. ![]() Garcia died of a heart attack at age 53 in a San Geronimo Valley drug treatment center in 1995, tragically ending the Grateful Dead’s 40-year career. The news has sparked quite a buzz in the Grateful Dead world with excitement over the prospect of the famously iconoclastic band coming to the big screen mixed with some healthy skepticism about the ability of Hollywood to pull off a movie about the Dead and Garcia with any degree of authenticity. Scorsese himself likely has extensive knowledge about the band after executive producing a documentary about the Grateful Dead called “Long Strange Trip” in 2017.For those of you who haven’t heard, Martin Scorsese has announced that he’s set to produce and direct a biopic about the Grateful Dead with Jonah Hill playing Jerry Garcia, the band’s iconic pater familias. Other band members include Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann, who Deadline and Variety report will be executive producers on the project. He passed away from a heart attack in 1995 while staying in a drug rehabilitation facility. Garcia served as a singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the band. The Grateful Dead is an American rock band that was formed in the San Francisco Bay Area amid the rise of the counterculture of the 1960s. The premise and other details for the project haven’t been revealed yet. This will be the first time Hill and Scorsese have worked together since 2013, when they made “The Wolf of Wall Street” together, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. Hill also confirmed the news by posting a photo of the Deadline article on his Instagram page with the praying hands and skull emojis as the caption. Jonah Hill is set to star as the iconic Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia in a musical biopic being directed by Martin Scorsese.ĭeadline and Variety both report that the actor and the legendary filmmaker will team up for the yet to be titled film, with both acting as producers as well.
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