Hey Now, Here Comes a Documentary About the Grateful Dead

LOS ANGELES — If The Grateful Dead told you about all that went down, it would burn off both your ears. And we're about to get a lot of it on the big screen.

Just in time for the Dead's 50th anniversary, an officially blessed-by-the-band documentary feature film is in the works from director Amir Bar-Lev, with Martin Scorsese onboard as an executive producer. The project has no distribution plan or release date, but with financing in place, it's definitely getting made.

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Expect a lot of performance footage that's never been featured before, vintage interviews, and other good stuff from the Dead’s vaults, with longtime archivist David Lemieux serving as music supervisor. Read more...

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