Jonah Hill Cast as Jerry Garcia in Martin Scorsese’s Grateful Dead Movie | THR News - video Dailymotion

Apple is behind the film, which will feature the band's music.

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00:00Jonah Hill is set to play Jerry Garcia in a feature film about the Grateful Dead.

00:04The movie will see Hill once again team up with director Martin Scorsese.

00:08The pair previously worked together on The Wolf of Wall Street.

00:11Both Scorsese and Hill will produce the movie.

00:13The project is set up at Apple where Scorsese has a first look deal

00:16and is currently working on his next feature film, The Killers of the Flower Moon,

00:20starring another Wolf of Wall Street actor, Leonardo DiCaprio.

00:23The Grateful Dead was founded in the Bay Area in the 1960s

00:26as part of San Francisco's counterculture movement.

00:28Garcia acted as the lead guitarist as well as vocalist.

00:32He died in 1995.

00:34Apple has acquired the rights to use The Grateful Dead's music in the film.

00:37It's unclear what part of the band's history will be seen in the movie,

00:40but Scorsese has already been a part of bringing the band's story to the screen,

00:44executive producing the 2017 rock documentary Long Strange Trip.

00:48What is it about The Grateful Dead?

00:49Grateful Dead.

00:51The narrative of The Grateful Dead was that we're the same as you.

00:55You're the same as us.

00:56As for Hill, the two-time Oscar nominee will next be seen in the Netflix film Don't Look Up,

01:00alongside DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, and more stars.

01:05For more on this story, go to THR.com.

01:07For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.