The saga of Alex Ross Perry’s bizarre, meta Pavement movie undertaking continues with the official teaser trailer for a film titled Vary Life: A Pavement Story starring Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Tim Heidecker, Nat Wolff, and extra.
Vary Life is the biopic side of Perry’s hybrid biopic/musical/documentary Pavements. It stars Keery as frontman Stephen Malkmus, telling an embellished story of the band by a self-aware lens, with “On your consideration” jokes abound. Says distributor Utopia in a press release: “On the heels of this 12 months’s Oscars ceremony, there’s already one frontrunner rising for 2026’s Finest Actor from a musical biopic… Joe Keery as Stephen Malkmus.”
What we all know thus far in regards to the film Pavements, which premiered on the 2024 Venice Movie Competition, is that Keery and his co-stars are depicted as fictional variations of themselves in “behind-the-scenes” footage on the set of Vary Life, extra preoccupied with the profession advantages of being in a biopic than with the movie’s topic. On this new teaser, they’re proven portraying the band in label conferences, interviews, and on stage, with Pavement songs like “Right here” and “Shady Lane / J vs. S” enjoying beneath.
The teaser ends with a be aware studying, “This Christmas dress for achievement?” suggesting a December twenty fifth launch date, however no additional particulars can be found at the moment.
This previous December, Ross, producer Robert Greene, and the band’s co-founder Scott Kannberg (aka Spiral Stairs) confirmed that “there will likely be a brand new Pavement tune on the soundtrack” for the movie’s 2025 launch, although Kannberg described it as “not an enormous deal.”
In the meantime, the 2020s have been a resurgent time for Pavement. Past their 2022 reunion tour, the band achieved the very first Gold certification of their profession final 12 months for his or her 1999 tune “Harness Your Hopes.”
Moreover, Malkmus launched a brand new indie supergroup final 12 months known as The Arduous Quartet, with Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney, and Jim White. Their self-titled debut album dropped in October, and so they have plenty of 2025 tour dates arising, together with reveals in Atlanta, Brooklyn, Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, and extra cities. Get tickets right here.
