Joe Keery and Jason Schwartzman to star in forthcoming Pavement film premiering at Venice Film Festival

"Pavements, a prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, is an examination of the iconic 90s indie band Pavement," reads a statement on the film. "The film intimately shows the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while simultaneously tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum devoted to their history and a big-budget Hollywood biopic inspired by their saga as the most important band of a generation"

The film stars Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Tim Heidecker, Zoe Lister-Jones, Michael Esper, Nat Wolff, Fred Hechinger, Logan Miller, Griffin Newman, and Kathryn Gallagher.

Alex Ross Perry's upcoming film 'Pavement's' has been announced as part of the official lineup for the 2024 Venice Film Festival. It's described as a ‘prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid examination of the band.’ pic.twitter.com/JKOR9UWqhH

— pavement archive (@pavementarchive) July 23, 2024

Back in 2022, it was revealed that Alex Ross Perry's recent Slanted! Enchanted! A Pavement Musical was part of a larger film project about the band that's in the works. A piece in The New Yorker revealed that Pavement wanted a film, but instead of hiring a filmmaker, Stephen Malkmus wanted to work with a screenwriter. Malkmus also didn't want a screenplay, and Perry said, "No one knew what that meant."