Home WebMail Friday, November 1, 2024, 06:28 AM | Calgary | -3.8°C | Regions Advertise Login | Our platform is in maintenance mode. Some URLs may not be available. |
Posted: 2021-11-18T20:21:16Z | Updated: 2021-11-18T20:21:16Z

Jonah Hill will be Grateful for his next acting role: The Superbad star is set to play Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia in a biopic directed by Martin Scorsese .

Hill will also be co-producing the film for Apple TV. The movie, which does not yet have a title, is being made with the permission of the band and the groups management, according to Deadline .

Although the film will be Scorseses first musical biopic, he has history with the Dead, having been an executive producer on the 2017 documentary Long Strange Trip. He has also directed documentaries about music legends George Harrison and Bob Dylan , as well as the seminal concert film The Last Waltz, about The Band.

Hill posted about the film Thursday on Instagram , but no release date has been set.