The saga of Alex Ross Perry’s bizarre, meta Pavement movie venture continues with the official teaser trailer for a film titled Vary Life: A Pavement Story starring Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Tim Heidecker, Nat Wolff, and extra.
Vary Life is the biopic facet of Perry’s hybrid biopic/musical/documentary Pavements. It stars Keery as frontman Stephen Malkmus, telling an embellished story of the band by means of a self-aware lens, with “In your consideration” jokes abound. Says distributor Utopia in a press release: “On the heels of this yr’s Oscars ceremony, there’s already one frontrunner rising for 2026’s Finest Actor from a musical biopic… Joe Keery as Stephen Malkmus.”
What we all know up to now concerning the film Pavements, which premiered on the 2024 Venice Movie Pageant, is that Keery and his co-stars are depicted as fictional variations of themselves in “behind-the-scenes” footage on the set of Vary Life, extra preoccupied with the profession advantages of being in a biopic than with the movie’s topic. On this new teaser, they’re proven portraying the band in label conferences, interviews, and on stage, with Pavement songs like “Right here” and “Shady Lane / J vs. S” enjoying beneath.
The teaser ends with a observe studying, “This Christmas dress for fulfillment?” suggesting a December twenty fifth launch date, however no additional particulars can be found presently.
This previous December, Ross, producer Robert Greene, and the band’s co-founder Scott Kannberg (aka Spiral Stairs) confirmed that “there shall be a brand new Pavement track on the soundtrack” for the movie’s 2025 launch, although Kannberg described it as “not an enormous deal.”
In the meantime, the 2020s have been a resurgent time for Pavement. Past their 2022 reunion tour, the band achieved the very first Gold certification of their profession final yr for his or her 1999 track “Harness Your Hopes.”
Moreover, Malkmus launched a brand new indie supergroup final yr known as The Laborious Quartet, with Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney, and Jim White. Their self-titled debut album dropped in October, they usually have various 2025 tour dates arising, together with exhibits in Atlanta, Brooklyn, Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, and extra cities. Get tickets right here.