The long awaited authorized documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin has finally released the first trailer:
From Angie Maroccio at Rolling Stone Magazine:
The film was first announced five years ago, then premiered at the 2021 Venice Film Festival. That same year, an early clip of “Good Times Bad Times” was released. In May 2024, the “hybrid docu-concert film” was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics.
Making the film was challenging for MacMahon and writer-producer Allison McGourty, as hardly any footage from the band’s early years existed. Through their research, they were able to include unseen concert footage, including their early performances at the Fillmore West in January 1969 and the Texas Pop Festival in August 1969.
“We spent five years flying back and forth across the Atlantic scouring attics and basements in pursuit of rare and unseen film footage, photographs, and music recordings,” McGourty said in a statement. “Then we transferred each piece of media with custom techniques, so that in IMAX, these 55-year-old clips and music would look and sound like they came out of the lab yesterday.”
Becoming Led Zeppelin will be released on February 7th, 2025 in 200 IMAX theatres.
