Questlove’s unique documentary about funk pioneer Sly Stone will premiere on Hulu starting February thirteenth, 2025, following its debut on the 2025 Sundance Movie Competition.
Titled Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius), the movie will characteristic a star-studded visitor checklist together with André 3000, D’Angelo, Chaka Khan, Q-Tip, Nile Rogers, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, George Clinton, Ruth Copeland, and Clive Davis.
Bandmates from Sly and the Household Stone and relations Sylvette Phunne Robinson, Novena Carmel, and Sylvester Stewart Jr. are additionally set to seem. Watch a short teaser trailer beneath.
Questlove and Sly Stone beforehand labored collectively on the singer’s memoir. The drummer penned the foreword for Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), which in October 2023 grew to become the primary e book revealed on Questlove’s AUWA Books imprint.
Sly Lives! is Questlove’s newest documentary following his 2021 Oscar-winning debut, Summer time of Soul (Or, When the Revolution May Not Be Televised). He’s subsequent set to helm Women & Gents… 50 Years of SNL Music, a brand new movie about Saturday Night time Stay’s musical legacy, which is able to premiere on January twenty seventh on NBC.
