Jerry Garcia Film to Start Off Promising and End Listlessly and Bloated, Much Like Garcia
HOLLYWOOD—According to the producers of the upcoming, unnamed Jerry Garcia film, director, Amir Bar-Lev, has expressed a desire to create something very unqiue when he begins shooting the long-awaited biopic. His vision apparently will focus mainly on the arc that was Garcia’s life. Visually, he plans an honest reflection of how Garcia lived and ultimately died.
“He’s going to make a movie that begins very sharply and succiently,” said producer, Harry Mellows. “It’s going to be a lot like when Jerry first tested the rock ‘n’ roll waters. His voice was beautiful and he could sing better than almost anyone on the west coast. Of course, throughout the movie, there will be moments when drugs are introduced to Garcia. Bar-Lev plans to take drugs himself during the filming of these scenes. He’s hoping the look of the film will become frazzled and shattered, reflecting what eventually happened to Garcia’s once finely-tuned voice.”
As far as the climax of the film, Bar-Lev plans to enlist thousands and thousands of “deadheads” to disrupt scenes and block the camera from picking up images of the actor yet to be casted to portray Garcia. This he feels is going to express the most important theme in the film, the distortion of who The Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia really were, by those that treated them like something to be worshipped religiously.
“Bar-Lev has insisted that everyone working on the production get lost in a world of sloth, drugs, sex, and hacky sacks, forgetting about their jobs and taks at hand,” continued Mellows. “He wants this film to take years to finish, which will, again, reflect the feelings many people had about The Grateful Dead towards the end, that they should’ve given up years before. Their shows had become a circus and they had stopped being about the music. There will be no soundtrack for the last hour of the film.”
As previously mentioned, the producers have yet to reach the casting stage of the production. When asked who may be considered for the role of Garcia, several names were thrown out by Mellows, though he insists Bar-Lev’s suggestions will get first consideration.
“He’s narrowed it down to three: John Goodman, John Waters, or that guy that used to be the kid from Good Burger, what’s his name. You know. The fat, black guy.”
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