Martin Scorsese to produce new 'Grateful Dead' documentary

With the Grateful Dead's 50th Anniversary, an official blessed-by-the-band documentary feature film has been in the works from director Amir Bar-Lev and Martin Scorsese is onboard as an executive producer.

The project has no distribution plan or release date as yet, but with financing in place, it is certain that the film shall definitely get made, Mashable reported.

There has been talks that a lot of performance footage that has never been featured before, vintage interviews, and other good stuff from the Deada(tm)s vaults, would be brought out with the help of the longtime archivist David Lemieux, serving as the film's music supervisor.

The surviving members of the band, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir said in a joint statement that they were humbled to be collaborating with Martin Scorsese, as the filmmaker had made some of the greatest music documentaries ever.