Launch dates for broadcast, cable and streaming programs, Up-to-date lists for broadcast, cable and streaming series, Pandemic-proof vs. pandemic-contingent broadcast lineups, Signup for Breaking News Alerts & Newsletters, Get our latest storiesin the feed of your favorite networks. Jonze formed a close friendship with Mark Gonzales, co-owner of the newly formed Blind Skateboards at the time, and began shooting photos with the young Blind team including Jason Lee, Guy Mariano and Rudy Johnson in the late 1980s. Send us a tip using our annonymous form. Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy. JONZE: The things we cut was much more theatrical, things like little skits. JONZE: Every night of the show was really moving, especially when Adam Horowtiz talks and then Adam and Mike talk about Yauch at the end, those last few sections. Spike Jonze made up one-third (along with, Tue, Oct 20 • Beastie Boys Story is available on Apple TV+ from 24 April. on DEADLINE: Spike, you briefly show up in the film during a prompter issue. DEADLINE: What was that writing process like? They also don’t take themselves seriously so this didn’t come naturally. Looking for some great streaming picks? I loved it because I felt close to Yauch and what moved me was feeling him and the force of life he was. Or I’d heard a story from Yauch but never heard it from Mike, but really it was asking what was this like. Being able to go through all of those old photos, videos and interviews, he really was with us through the whole thing, which was really special for everybody. Spike Jonze made up one-third (along with Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman) of the triumvirate of genius minds behind Dirt Magazine, the brother publication of the much lamented ground-breaking Sassy Magazine. That’s what resonated for me. He decided in between that I was going to direct it.”. The second one became a much bigger show and it was fun in a much more surreal way, we were in a giant theater with a crew. JONZE: It seems super positive. Sometimes, I’m distracted or tired and Amanda is able to say this doesn’t make me feel right, or doesn’t feel like it like it did on stage. Additionally, SPC has also acquired the rights in Asia, Israel, Turkey and the rest of Europe, making it a worldwide release for the label. Horowitz was always the funniest, quickest, wittiest wisecrack. But one of the people instrumental in the film who was not particularly visible was Jonze’s creative producing partner Amanda Adelson, who helped write the film in addition to producing it. We want to hear from you! I’m not sure I look at it like that, it’s more about getting to honor this thing and these people who are so important to me and influenced me so much. As we grew up, we went through all sorts of life stuff together. They were telling a story of how Paul’s Boutique bombed and I said we should talk about what the record’s become, it’s become one of the most influential rap albums but he said ‘I’m not going to say that, fuck that, no way’. Jonze says that West asked him for an idea for the video, which he gave him, but that he was unable to make it to set as he was going out of town. Launch dates for broadcast, cable and streaming programs, Up-to-date lists for broadcast, cable and streaming series, Pandemic-proof vs. pandemic-contingent broadcast lineups, Signup for Breaking News Alerts & Newsletters, Get our latest storiesin the feed of your favorite networks. Things would go off the rails and I’d try and bring them back on the rails. This film is a time capsule of the 1980s: an era that was crass and excessive in so many ways, but now seems weirdly exotic. “I am so honored and humbled to have him involved with Nine Days, it really means the world to me.”. There’s some pieces in there when Mike talks about being stoned in his Paul’s Boutique outfit going to a Dolly Parton birthday party and talking to Bob Dylan, who was his idol and Bob Dylan confuses Mike and is fucking with him but Mike can’t even tell if he’s fucking with him and Mike leaves confused. She co-wrote The Dirt, the Netflix comedy drama feature about heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, a band that she describes as the “diametric opposite” of Beastie Boys. Five contenders emerge, and during the course of nine days, Will tests each of them, but he can choose only one. Both their music and them as people. So, we acted that out with different actors like Michael K. Williams, Lena Dunham, Bridget Everett. If someone said ‘No’, that’s definitely the direction they went. DEADLINE: Amanda, what was your role across the film? Adelson (left), who below with Jonze discusses how the doc came about, has an interesting story. We had many more fuck ups in the show than we showed in the movie, but that was the energy. I still never got let in to the inner sanctum, the precious thing that they have together. Her Oscar winner Spike Jonze has boarded Sony Pictures Classics upcoming early 2021 release as an Executive Producer. DEADLINE: Did you feel you had different relationships with each of them or did you have a relationship with them as a trio? He was inspiring when I was 21. on Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy. I love all that stuff, but I also felt that the strongest thing was the story of their friendship and their music. She also “accidentally” directed Kanye West’s I Love It video, which features the rapper wearing rather odd outfits described as Roblox outfits meets the suits from David Byrne’s Stop Making Sense film with vocals from Lil Pump and comedian Adele Givens. Send us a tip using our annonymous form. As I got to know them and work with them, I got let in a lot. ADELSON: A lot of it is feeling what is this about and I got to spend time writing and got to see their relationship and how special they were. Beastie Boys Story is produced by Jason Baum and Amanda Adelson, alongside director and writer Spike Jonze, and executive produced by Mike Diamond, Adam Horovitz, Dechen Wangdu-Yauch, John Silva, John Cutcliffe, Peter Smith, Thomas Benski, Dan Bowen, Sam Bridger, Michele Anthony, David Blackman and Ashley Newton. Mike was the softy, I’d stay at his house and we’d talk about things that we wanted to do. They’re a band that is so intimate and even when I first met them, they were kind of impenetrable because it was mysterious. Yauch was a filmmaker but also a mischief maker, he thought anything could be done, there was no limits. Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. West was expected to direct and Adelson went to set to help out. We had a lot of that energy in common and filmmaking in common. “When I was working at Dickhouse, I was working with Jeff Tremaine, who directed the Jackass movies and he got the script and as he was going out for it, he wanted to break the story down and I was his assistant at the time and I was helping him. 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