Watch Joe Keery in a new teaser trailer for the Pavement documentary

Earlier today, the documentary about 90s indie rock band Pavement released one of its first teaser trailers via Utopia. Now titled Range Life: A Pavement Story, the film includes a star-studded cast of actors playing as members of the band, including the subject of this trailer, Joe Keery.

Watch the teaser trailer below:

Keery plays a young version of Pavement's frontman Stephen Malkamus. The teaser trailer includes a snippet of the Stranger Things actor singing "Shady Lane," the second track off the band's 1997 record Brighten the Corners. The lyrics highlighted are fitting to the general energy of this unique spin on a biopic, as the Malkamus character sings, "You’ve been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequel to your life."

Alongside Keery, the trailer also features other famous faces portraying the younger versions of the band members. Fred Hechinger (The White Lotus, Gladiator II) and Nat Wolff (of Nat & Alex Wolff and The Naked Brothers Band) star as Bob Nastanovich and Scott Kannberg respectively. Logan Miller and Griffin Newman complete the four-piece as Mark Ibold and Steve West.

Jason Schwartzman and Tim Heidecker, actor/comedians and indie singer-songrwriters in their own right, will also star.

While the film premiered in September 2024 at the 81st annual Venice Film Festival under the name Pavements, the highly-anticipated documentary-meets-art film is due for a theatrical release on December 25, according to the trailer. It was originally scheduled for a spring release.

The movie will notably feature a new Pavement song—the first in 25 years, according to a statement made by Kannberg in December 2024. "It's just cool because it's something different, and it's a song we all kind of loved playing," he said, commenting that the new track was already mixed. It will be on the official soundtrack, which will also include a lot of the tracks from the band's discography.

Joe Keery's The Crux, his third studio album under the moniker Djo, will be released on April 4. Singles "Basic Being Basic" and "Delete Ya" are now available for streaming.

Victoria Borlando

New York, NY

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