We’ve already gotta complete lotta love for “Turning into Led Zeppelin” — the rock documentary and live performance movie about one of many best bands ever — and that’s simply primarily based on its trailer, launched Thursday.
The movie itself doesn’t come out till February 7, 2025, however it may very well be well worth the wait: Sony Photos Classics is releasing “Turning into Led Zeppelin” solely into almost 200 U.S. IMAX theaters. It is going to play in preview screenings throughout 18 markets for one night time on February 5. The movie, directed by Bernard MacMahon, is billed as the primary “approved” documentary on the foursome of Robert Plant, Jimmy Web page, John Paul Jones, and the late John Bonham. It encompasses a never-before-heard interview with Bonham concerning the band’s trajectory and legacy.
Within the first trailer for the movie, Bonham describes the primary time the band performed collectively as “beautiful” and like a “present from heaven.”
Or like on a stairway to heaven?
The movie consists of an unseen Led Zeppelin efficiency and different behind the scenes footage. The film really screened as a work-in-progress movie at Venice manner again in 2021 (on the time IndieWire described it as a reasonably standard take a look at the psychedelic rock gods), however we think about MacMahon has had much more time to sit down with the fabric since then. The truth is, the filmmakers needed to play detective to trace down the little or no footage that exists of the band of their very early days.
“We spent 5 years flying backwards and forwards throughout the Atlantic scouring attics and basements in pursuit of uncommon and unseen movie footage, images and music recordings,” author/producer Allison McGourty mentioned in an announcement. “Then we transferred each bit of media with customized methods, in order that in IMAX, these 55-year-old clips and music would look and sound like they got here out of the lab yesterday.”
“The cinematic energy of IMAX paired with the movie’s genuine sound creates an immersive and transportive viewing expertise letting audiences really feel like they’re there, within the venues with the band,” MacMahon mentioned.
Tom Bernard, co-president and co-founder of Sony Photos Classics, mentioned, “I had a mind-blowing expertise seeing Led Zeppelin for the primary time in August 1969 on the Texas Worldwide Pop Competition in Grapevine, Texas and it has stayed with me ever since. This legendary group deserves a spectacular North American theatrical launch of this unimaginable movie! I can not consider a single film that extra brilliantly attracts you into an artist’s story, exhibits you the way their music was made, and makes you expertise it as if it was model new. I do know it is going to be inspirational to younger folks and legacy defining for generations to return.”
MacMahon is an Emmy and BAFTA-nominated filmmaker (“American Epic”). “Turning into Led Zeppelin” is written by MacMahon and McGourty, and produced by McGourty and Paradise Photos in affiliation with Massive Seashore. Govt producers are Michael B Clark, Alex Turtletaub, Cynthia Heusing, David Kistenbroker, Duke Erikson, Simon Moran, and Ged Doherty. Modifying is by Dan Gitlin; sound supervision is by Nick Bergh. Sound restoration is by Grammy Award winner Peter Henderson, and the movie’s archival analysis comes from Kate Griffiths and Wealthy Remsberg.
Tickets for “Turning into Led Zeppelin” can be found now by way of IMAX. Watch the trailer beneath.