Jonah Hill To Play Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia

Jonah Hill To Play Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia Movie
Jonah Hill will be playing Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia in an upcoming film. The legendary Garcia died August 9, 1995 in Lagunitas-Forest Knolls, CA. Scorsese is presently working on his next film, The Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and has set up the project at Apple.It will also be a reunion for the filmmaker and actor, who collaborated in The Wolf of Wall Street. Scorsese will produce the film under his Sikelia Productions, which has a first-look arrangement with Google. Hill will produce alongside Matt Dines under his Strong Baby brand.
The screenplay for the iconic jam band was written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the writers of biopics like Dolemite Is My Name and Big Eyes.The Dead’s music has been licensed for use in the film by Apple.