The long-awaited first licensed documentary about Led Zeppelin, Turning into Led Zeppelin, has been acquired by Sony Footage Classics, which can distribute the Bernard MacMahon-directed movie in North America, Latin America, the Center East, Southeast Asia (besides Japan) and Benelux.
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In keeping with Deadline, the hybrid documentary-concert movie options never-before-seen footage, performances and music and is described as an “experiential cinematic odyssey exploring Led Zeppelin’s artistic, musical and private origin story,” instructed in their very own phrases within the first formally sanctioned film concerning the band.
The hype practice for Turning into started in 2021 when a work-in-progress model was screened on the Venice Movie Competition, receiving a 10-minute standing ovation. The movie follows the band’s 4 members — singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Web page, bassist John Paul Jones and late drummer John Bonham — as they stand up by way of the British music scene within the Sixties taking part in in small golf equipment. It follows them to a fateful rehearsal in 1968 that modified the course of their careers and culminates of their first tour of America in 1970 as they ascended to rock superstardom.
In keeping with Deadline, the movie encompasses a new sound combine, beforehand unseen supplies from the archives of all 4 members, together with dwelling films and household images, in addition to unique interviews with Web page, Plant and Jones, and never-before-heard interviews with Bonham.
The film was written by MacMahon (American Epic) and Allison McGourty, with the director saying that the crew spent “years designing this movie to be skilled on the massive display with the very best sound.”
In a press release, a spokesperson for Sony Footage Classics added, “We liked this movie from the primary second we noticed it. It has been nothing in need of extraordinary to witness the natural course of Bernard, Allison, and their crew have taken to sculpt what has turned out to be THE definitive movie on the origins of Led Zeppelin. We’re honored to be working with such dedicated artists who’ve crafted a movie that instantly transports you proper into the vitality and pleasure of that point.” The rep went on to notice that the movie “seamlessly weaves astonishing performances, archival footage, and interviews by way of very good modifying and impeccable sound design. This movie is a grand theatrical expertise and we’re very proud to be bringing it to the world.”
At press time no launch date had been introduced for the movie, however you possibly can watch a teaser ready for the Venice debut under.
