Jonah Hill Is Set to Play Jerry Garcia in Martin Scorsese's Grateful Dead Biopic

Martin Scorsese is once again teaming up with Apple for a new film project, and that project is a biopic on the rock band The Grateful Dead. Scorsese will direct and produce the project, and he’s also cast Jonah Hill in the film to play the band’s frontman, Jerry Garcia.

Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (American Crime Story: Impeachment) are writing the script for the film. This won’t be the first Grateful Dead project that Scorsese has been a part of. He previously executive produced the Grateful Dead doc titled Long Strange Trip in 2017.

We don’t know what aspects of the band will be covered in the film, but “the story of the group goes back to the band’s formation in the Bay Area amid the rise of the psychedelic counterculture of the ’60s. They continued to record albums and conduct tours where Deadhead fans would follow them throughout the years all over the country for lengthy rave-like jam sessions.”

Jerry Garcia died in 1995, and since then the surviving members of the band have done their best to carry on.

Scorsese and Apple recently worked teamed up for the upcoming movie Killers of the Flower Moon, and it’s looking like that film is the first in many that they will produce together.

Source: Deadline