

“So I sent it to my company and to my manager, Rick, and they were like, ‘This is a great idea.’ And then Rick manages Martin Scorsese, and we worked together on Wolf of Wall Street, and he said, ‘You know who would love this is Martin Scorsese.’ And my partner Matt and I were like,, ‘Yeah. “And I finally did the work in my head to go, ‘No, share it with the people you work with,'” he continued. Related: Jimmy Fallon Expresses His Love For Dead & Company On ‘The Tonight Show’ Following First Show At MSG And, you know, ‘He’s an icon, and that’s just a picture.'” COVID started, I started my company, Strong Baby Productions … and we had just started the company, and I’m on Instagram, COVID just started, we’re all stuck in our houses, and I see this picture of Jerry Garcia when he’s young, and I’m like, ‘Wow, why has nobody done this? Why has nobody made a movie? I could play Jerry Garcia.’ And then I spent the next hour and a half, like, talking myself out of it, being like, ‘Don’t show anyone this. “This is a cool story that I’ll tell if anyone’s watching that needs to improve their voice of self-doubt in their heads, okay?” Hill explained. When Fallon, a recently converted Grateful Dead fan himself, asked about the film, Hill explained its unassuming origin: Instagram. Jonah Hill took some time during his Monday evening appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to talk about the forthcoming Martin Scorsese-directed Grateful Dead biopic, reportedly in development for Apple, in which he is set to star as Jerry Garcia.
