Everything You Need to Know About Spike Jonze’s “The Beastie Boys Story”
“What we’re gonna do right here is go back, way back, into time.”
The trailer for a new Beastie Boys documentary was released earlier this week, and with direction from Academy Award winner Spike Jonze, anticipation is brewing. The trailer begins with a fast-paced montage of the Beastie Boys—Michael “Mike D” Diamond, Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz, and the late Adam “MCA” Yauch—running through New York City at their prime in the ’90s. Fans of the rap crew will get a rush of adrenaline as “Paul Revere” and “Sabotage” play throughout the 30-second video.
The film is essentially Mike D and Ad-Rock’s memoir, which was originally a production for the stage and also directed by Jonze at the King’s Theater in Brooklyn last year. Seeing as the Beastie Boys are from Brooklyn, there was most likely no better place for the remaining members to look back on their lives as one of rap’s greatest groups.
Mike D and Ad-Rock took to Instagram in excitement to announce the new film, “It’s kind of a live documentary film, mostly filmed at our shows at King’s Theater in Brooklyn last year by Spike and we think you’re gonna love it,” they said.
The Beastie Boys Story will hit select IMAX theaters on April 3rd and then Apple TV+ on April 24th of this year.