The saga of Alex Ross Perry’s weird, meta Pavement film project continues with the official teaser trailer for a movie titled Range Life: A Pavement Story starring Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Tim Heidecker, Nat Wolff, and more.
Range Life is the biopic aspect of Perry’s hybrid biopic/musical/documentary Pavements. It stars Keery as frontman Stephen Malkmus, telling an embellished story of the band through a self-aware lens, with “For your consideration” jokes abound. Says distributor Utopia in a statement: “On the heels of this year’s Oscars ceremony, there’s already one frontrunner emerging for 2026’s Best Actor from a musical biopic… Joe Keery as Stephen Malkmus.”
What we know so far about the movie Pavements, which premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, is that Keery and his co-stars are depicted as fictional versions of themselves in “behind-the-scenes” footage on the set of Range Life, more preoccupied with the career benefits of being in a biopic than with the film’s subject. In this new teaser, they’re shown portraying the band in label meetings, interviews, and on stage, with Pavement songs like “Here” and “Shady Lane / J vs. S” playing beneath.
The teaser ends with a note reading, “This Christmas get dressed for success?” suggesting a December 25th release date, but no further details are available at this time.
This past December, Ross, producer Robert Greene, and the band’s co-founder Scott Kannberg (aka Spiral Stairs) confirmed that “there will be a new Pavement song on the soundtrack” for the film’s 2025 release, though Kannberg described it as “not a big deal.”
Meanwhile, the 2020s have been a resurgent time for Pavement. Beyond their 2022 reunion tour, the band achieved the very first Gold certification of their career last year for their 1999 song “Harness Your Hopes.”
Additionally, Malkmus launched a new indie supergroup last year called The Hard Quartet, with Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney, and Jim White. Their self-titled debut album dropped in October, and they have a number of 2025 tour dates coming up, including shows in Atlanta, Brooklyn, Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, and more cities. Get tickets here.
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