Watch The New Trailer For ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ Documentary
The full trailer for the upcoming IMAX documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin has been released. You can watch it below.
The film is the first authorised account of the band’s history ever to come to the big screen and has been in production since its original announcement in 2019.
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It features new interviews with guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist John Paul Jones and frontman Robert Plant, as well as rare archival interviews with the late drummer John Bonham, who died in 1980.
The trailer shows the band members reflecting on forming the band in 1968 and flying to the United States for their pivotal North American tour in January and February 1969.
Director Bernard MacMahon has said: “The cinematic power of IMAX paired with the film’s authentic sound creates an immersive and transportive viewing experience letting audiences feel like they are there, in the venues with the band.”
Writer/producer Allison McGourty added: “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. 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.”
“We couldn’t be more excited to be partnering with IMAX and Sony Pictures Classics to bring this film to big screens for all audiences, Led Zeppelin fans, of course, but also all music lovers and anyone looking for an inspiring, uplifting story with amazing music,” McGourty added.
A rough version of Becoming Led Zeppelin was premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2021 but hasn’t been seen since.
In other Led Zeppelin-related news, Jimmy Page has unveiled a new EDS-1275 Double-neck VOS custom guitar as part of his ongoing partnership with Gibson.
The two joined forces in a new partnership at the start of the year, and first shared a limited Collector’s Edition version of the guitarist’s iconic double neck axe back in March.
Now, the new model is called the EDS-1275 Double-neck VOS and arrives from Gibson Custom. Priced at just under £8,800, the spec of the new variant includes a double-cutaway one-piece mahogany body, both necks having a 12” radius, bound Indian rosewood fretboards, aged cellulose nitrate parallelogram inlays and more.
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