Grateful Dead moving rolling along

 

Deadheads rejoice! Up until now, all attempts to make a moving about The Grateful Dead have met a major hurdle in gaining use of the music. Deadline reports that ICM has been given unprecedented access to the band’s music catalog and will package a narrative-style feature film built around those tunes.

The project has been rolling forward with the help of ICM lit agent Bruce Kaufman. He was able to gain rights for Beatles songs to be used in Across the Universe. Kaufman is working with The Grateful Dead team that includes band archivist David Lemieux and Mark Pinkus, GM of Grateful Dead Properties at Warner Music Group’s Rhino Entertainment. Rhino was granted exclusive management of The Grateful Dead’s intellectual property back in 2006. The film will not be a biopic. Instead the plan is to capture the psychedelic Haight-Ashbury vibe of the late 60s and early 70s, grounded by Dead songs like Truckin’, U.S. Blues, Dark Starand Good Lovin.

The San Francisco-based band was formed in 1965, but disbanded in 1995 when frontman/guitarist Jerry Garcia passed away shortly after the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band performed 2,300 live shows over 30 years together.

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