Untitled Jerry Garcia/Grateful Dead biopic

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After stepping up as a producer on his next film Killers of the Flower Moon, Apple has found its next Martin Scorsese project and its subject is a band the Oscar winner knows well. Sources tell Deadline, Scorsese is on board to direct and produce a new untitled biopic on the Grateful Dead with Jonah Hill on board to play the group’s frontman, Jerry Garcia. Hill will also produce the pic.

Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who received rave reviews for penning American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson, are writing the script with Rick Yorn of LBI Entertainment joining Hill and Scorsese as producers. Insiders add that with the band and the group’s management participating in the film, Apple has rights to use the groups musical catalogue for the film.

Scorsese has a long track record of producing and directing rock docus over the years which included a Grateful Dead doc Long Strange Trip in 2017 but this would mark the first time the director has gone the biopic route for an iconic musical act. The project also reunites Hill and Scorsese, who first worked together on The Wolf of Wall Street, which earned Hill his second Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. The two have been looking for something to work on together ever since then and the opportunity to play a rock legend like Garcia was too good to pass up for Hill.
https://deadline.com/2021/11/jonah-hill ... 234875832/

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