The official Led Zeppelin documentary “Becoming Led Zeppelin” will be shown exclusively in IMAX on February 7, 2025, in nearly 200 theatres! Ahead of the release, IMAX will hold one night only early access screenings in eighteen markets on February 5, 2025. Tickets are on sale now!
“Becoming Led Zeppelin” is directed by the award-winning, Emmy- and BAFTA-nominated Bernard MacMahon (“American Epic”), and written by MacMahon and BAFTA-nominated producer Allison McGourty.
“Becoming Led Zeppelin” looks at the origins of Zeppelin and their rise to superstars in just one year. In the doc, you’ll see never-before-seen footage, performances and music. It explores the band’s creative, musical, and personal origin story. The film is told in Led Zeppelin’s own words and is the first officially sanctioned film.
Director Bernard MacMahon 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.”
“Becoming Led Zeppelin” almost didn’t happen – mostly because the filmmakers didn’t have much footage from the band’s early period to work with. So, MacMahon and McGourty started looking for footage.
“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,” writer/producer Allison McGourty said. “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, ZEPPELIN fans, of course, but also all music lovers and anyone looking for an inspiring, uplifting story with amazing music,” McGourty added.
Tom Bernard, co-president and co-founder of Sony Pictures Classics, said: “I had a mind-blowing experience seeing LED ZEPPELIN for the first time in August 1969 at the Texas International Pop Festival in Grapevine, Texas and it has stayed with me ever since. This legendary group merits a spectacular North American theatrical release of this incredible film! I cannot think of a single movie that more brilliantly draws you into an artist’s story, shows you how their music was made, and makes you experience it as if it was brand new. I know it will be inspirational to young people and legacy defining for generations to come.”
Led Zeppelin mastermind Jimmy Page on his original plan for the band: “I was looking for a band with four… I didn’t want to have a band with just the guitarist and the other guys are bit players. There was a lot of bands like that. I wanted each and every musician in it to be equally as strong. So then when they came together, they would feel the contribution by the others and up their game; everybody is upping their game. I believe that the first album, the musicians — Robert Plant, John Bonham… Certainly John Bonham, but Robert Plant, myself and John Paul Jones had never played at that level of intensity as to the quality of how good they could play. But it all joins together into something really special. And that never stops.”
Singer Robert Plant added: “Seeing Will Shade and so many other important early American musicians brought to life on the big screen in ‘American Epic’ inspired me to contribute to a very interesting and exciting story.”
Jones said: “The time was right for us to tell our own story for the first time in our own words, and I think that this film will really bring this story to life.”
From the 60s to the 20s – what an incredible band Led Zeppelin was! Still creating waves nearly 60 years later.
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