dont get actors to play the band members …get dead cover musician lookalikes.

thanks
http://www.gra tefuldeadbooks.com

Mickey Hart-Abe Vigoda
Kruetzman- Clint Eastwood
Lesh- Antonio Banderas
Pigpen- Peter Gallagher
Weir-Antony Hopkins
Garcia-Adrian Brody
Grace Slick- Norm Chomsky

um…the book is great.

not to stoked on the idea of a movie. there already is one…’the grateful dead movie’…duh..

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz…………

I think a cast of unkowns is the way to go on this one my friends.

I think a cast of unkowns is the way to go on this one my friends.

good call on the cast of unknowns.

weak

unknows for everyone but the band members.

I better hurry up and find me a dealer quick who can get me some acid or mescaline before this movie comes out! Can’t watch this one straight.

I would like to see a bearded Wilford Brimley play an older Jerry Garcia. He hasn’t had many acting gigs since “Cocoon”. I am also tired of seeing him in those Liberty commercials. I would like to see Jack Black play Pigpen.

I’d like to see Tom Cruise as Jerry Garcia, and Brandon Fraser as Bob Weir.

for Grace Slick how bout Joss Stone

or do what Zappa Did in 200 Motels
Bob Weir can play Pigpeg
Billy can play Mickey and vise versa
Phil can play Bobby and
Ringo or John Popper can play Jerry

MY KEYBOARD IS TRIPPING OUT

Carrot Top should play Jerry Garcia and Pauly Shore can play Bob Weir. Also let Lindsay Lohan play Grace Slick so she can flash us those boobies of hers which will get more people into the theatres.

Also there should be complimentary joints passed out to all adults who buy tickets with smoking sections for getting high designated in all theatres that play this movie. Yeah, man!

Like…uh…uh… wow. Uh…I…I…I…wow.
Uuuuhhh ………………………… ………………………… ………………………… ………………… Far

Out.

just make sure the music is real

this movie is gonna have unknowns. no stars can be attached to the members of the Dead at least

this movie will suck
bob weir has geeked the fvck out

Paul Giamatti as Pig Pen…yeah, I can see that. Good call. As for the others, howzabout this -
Bob Weir – Eddie Murphy
Jerry Garcia – Ron Jeremy
Phil Lesh – a trout
Bill Kreutzman – Angela Lansbury
Mickey Hart – Danny DeVito
Grace Slick – Grace Jones
…and Donald Sutherland as the Clumsy Waiter.

don’t care if I have heard of the actors as long as the movie is good. This is a special band and they better not ruin it with some shite movie.

Jerry- David Hasselhoff
Mickey- John Cena
Bob- Charlie Daniels
Pigpen- Gary Busey
Kruetzman- Jonathon Taylor Thomas
Phil- Barbara Streisand
Jefferson Airplane- get the guys from Rico Suave and let Marylyn Manson play Grace Slick.

they should make it an action flick and have the band triumph over the villian, played by the band ratdog, at the end.

ratdog sucking fucks.

a bunch of pathetic comments from most of you, those few of you that are serious excluded. as for the rest of you, have some respect for a wonderful rock band that changed alot of peoples lives. no need to make junior high comments. keep ‘em to yourselves. thanks.

ps- needless to say i cant wait to see the film. im sure it will bring back alot of great memories.

I say Jerry Garcia should play himself. Yes, that’s right. Dig up his corpse, get a great costume designer to make his corpse look like Jerry again, use some computer generated images to make it seem like he’s talking, and parade him around the set just like that dude in the “Weekend at Bernie’s” movie. Play “Truckin” continuously from beginning to end in the background. Everyone will be so stoned when they see this movie that no one will know the difference.

my comment wasn’t junior high. i actually liked the grateful dead. i just don’t see how anyone can consider ratdog to be anything else besides diarrhea soup. i saw them for the first time at bonnaroo and wow! they were like a group of sixty year old creeps covering dead songs.

Possibilities for Jerry:

Dustin Hoffman
Robert Deniro
Tom Hanks
Leonardo Dicaprio
Woody Allen

Greatful Dead Movie?! You’ll need a difibulator, a needle full of ephenphrine HCL, some morphine, some triple sec LSD (for those who know what that is!),music instruments, roadies, fans, players,YOU’LL NEED A WHOLE LOT OF HELP AND PEOPLE!!!! Indica anyone??

grateful dead suck. if you people weren’t so stoned all the time you would realzie that the music is garbage and anyone could reproduce it they just chose not to because it’s not worth wasting time on.

Jerry garcia- Val kilmer

it’s funny…..i listen to most of these mean spirited comments from people who were probably not around to enjoy the fruits of the musical labor produced by a band that cannot be reproduced…on stage..let alone on film….. i.e. ratdog…or any other re-incarnation…tried…true or whatever !!……hey people…stop…look…listen. ..give up the hatorade….and remenber…” if the thunder don’t get you then the lightning will “…peace..

The Dead scene was chaotic and often not as free as people liked to think–enormous amounts of garbage; drug ripoffs, etc.
But some of the snobs might consider that for most of us the music is what counted the most and we were exposed to Bill Monroe to Smokey Robinson to Ornette Coleman. That’s a legacy I’m proud of, and one I’ll pass on to my kids.

people, this is a story about the EARLY days of the GD… so blow the dust off your imaginations (I can see by your comments many of you have a pretty far fetched one) and think…

I like Joss Stone as Janis (romance with Pig scenes) Emile Hirsch (lords of dogtown, played Jay) for Weir (if he’d grow his hair back, he’s got weir’s stare down cold…)

Its no suprise Rolling Stone gets idiots commenting like this when it caters to Bullcrap music and pop up the ass! Come on RS..the artilce is good…and the movie can be great. Parish’s books is top drawer except for his infatuation with biker low brow humor (dogs and girls etc.). Anyone that has seen Ratdog when they are ON knows they can stir up the old Dead magic..no they are NOT the Dead..without Jerry they have lost the REAL MERLIN. And as for the idiots that do not get things like group consciousness and the best Fing music ever made in the universe…I am glad you missed it..we did not need you…now go watch some bullcrap new band as for me I will listen to the like of Susan Tedeschi (another Janis option–sings it hurts so bad better than Janis..)…and lets not forget Joan Osborne as Janis..Grace Slick (saw her hawking art at the mall and almost fell over–KOOL LADY!) she tried to dose NIXON man that is one COOL lady.
She will be hard to place…let me get back to you on Gracie…..and while you are thinking..listen to her song with Jerry “Across the Board” best vocals and guitar on a single song perhaps ever…
BCP

For the “jokers” out there, keeping listening to that emo crap and most of that other spewed garbage that passes for music today …

I think this movie is a great idea…

Bill Grahm as portrayed by Arnold Schwarteneggar…

Lots of anger and misperceptions being directed at the Good Old Grateful Dead. May a cool breze some day blow over you. Some funny stuff too. Thanks for the smiles.
This from Robert Hunter – Dead lyricist.

Nine mile skid
on a ten mile ride
Hot as a pistol
but cool inside
Cat on a tin roof
Dogs in a pile
Nothing left to do but
smile, smile, smile

If you think the Grateful Dead are garbage ask yourself this; when’s the last time someone made a movie about you?

Emile Hirsch as Bob Weir… YEAH!

Get The Dark Star Orchestra to be the band.

Get The Dark Star Orchestra to be the band.

As long as Terry Gilliam doesn’t direct it. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas didn’t quite work with a similar milieu and he probably would have had the same results with with others of the ilk, such as this more recent hallucinogenic road trip: http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ ct/1411677315/ref=sr_11_1/104- 9633264-8915903?%5Fencoding=UT F8

oops, title of that is: A Million Little Pieces of Feces

Only person who can play Mickey’s role is Leonard Nimoy. Mick had the Vulcan grip down.

Leonard Nimoy as Mickey

Mickey -Peter Gallagher
Billy – Bill Murray
Phil – Martina Navratilova
Bobby – Martina Navratilova
Jerry – David Duchovny

Grace SLick – Sara MacLaughlan

The band tells its own story in every song they played…who needs a silly Hollywood interpretation? Leave it be please.

the ONLY movie that should ever be made (if one really should) would have to be based not only around the band but around the fans – the energy that was the deadhead nation – the two parts coexisted – one without the other just doesn’t fit – but hey – I got on the bus in 72 and was always the straight one – when folks think that the only way to experience dead music is thru drugs – it just shows their ignorance – why would any true deadhead get so wacked out on dope that they couldn’t remember the show? ok – yeah – we have all been there – but ultimatley – you only get that first ride for free – too fucked up is a wasted ticket – but – to each his own – but still – there are times to get high on drugs – but getting high on dead music is so much better!
j

Corgan is an idiot who probably never even given a full listen to them……I’m not even a fan and I respect good musicians regardless of genre or fanbase.

Like the idea of doing a movie, however it will be a herculian task to capture the magic of that time. I’ll take a stab at the cassting:

Jerry G.-Vincent Donofrio (sorry about the spelling)
Pigpen- Paul Giamotti
Bob Weir-Gary Oldman
Phil Lesh-Anthony Edwards
Bill Kreutzman- Bill Muarry
Mickey Hart-S. Zahn

Any chance they will supply nitrix oxide tanks at the premiere??

Tommy Chong as Garcia pleez!

have jack black play jerry

if I am lucky enough they will cast me as Grace

the grateful dead were bad musicians. why are they making a movie about them…. why cant they make a movie about SOFT MACHINE instead!?!?!?!?!

the dead were the best your a fuckin fool

THEY HAVE TO BE YOUNG PEOPLE!!
IT’S AN EARLY DAYS FLICK

Weir : Ashton Kutcher

Janis: Phillip Seymour Hoffman

BAAAAAAAHHHAAA!!

THEY HAVE TO BE YOUNG PEOPLE!!
IT’S AN EARLY DAYS FLICK

Weir : Ashton Kutcher

Janis: Phillip Seymour Hoffman

BAAAAAAAHHHAAA!!

i dont care what the cast is as long as the director does rite by the dead, the movie has to be perfect. and as for you miserable emo assholes, just cut your fucking wrist already. its the only way to save your pathetic souls

Jerry Garcia was a pathetic junkie that died while trying to get off smack. He couldn’t sing to save his life or play guitar, let alone keep his guitar tuned. And this is the man you idolize? A chubby old heroin addict? As a hippie I’m embarrassed that he became such an icon in the counter-culture.

Sure the concerts were a good place to score drugs, and sure there were good vibes, good people. But as for musicianship? What does a deadhead say when the drugs wear off? Dude, this music sucks!

Stop kidding yourselves…

Though I don’t agree with some of the more hateful comments on here from people that obviously without a clue. I do agree that a movie is not needed. Those of us that were fortunate enough to live & experience the Dead for what they really were, ( a stage act) we do not really need a movie. I think this is more to line the pockets of the remaining members who have squandered a lot of the money they have made. The remaining members are currently touring for astronomical ticket prices.I find even though i did pay the outrageous prices for them i did feel there was a loss & something missing. So keep the movie in the vault & lets just remember the good times we all had when they Were still The Grateful Dead.