DUFF McKAGAN - Vision Films Picks Up It's So Easy Documentary
May 13, 2013, 11 years ago
Broadway World reports that Vision Films has secured worldwide distribution rights to former GUNS N' ROSES bassist DUFF McKAGAN's auto-biographical documentary, It’s So Easy And Other Lies. Based on the New York Times best seller about Duff's life, the film is written and directed by Christopher Duddy (Cougar Club), and is produced by McKagan, Duddy and Rainstorm Entertainment's Steven G. Kaplan (The Big Empty).
It’s So Easy And Other Lies features Duff McKagan and exclusive rare archive footage of his early days with original Guns N' Roses members Slash, Steven Adler, Izzy Stradlin and Axl Rose, as well as latter members Gilby Clarke and Matt Sorum, and contemporaries Mike McCready (PEARL JAM), Krist Novoselic (NIRVANA), Nikki Sixx (MÖTLEY CRÜE) and much more.
This authorized biographical documentary takes the audience on an incredible cinematic journey through the unbelievable rise of a driven teenager's meager beginnings on the streets of Seattle, to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The man is Michael McKagan, better known to the world as "Duff." The band is Guns N' Roses. The band became the ultimate icons of sex, drugs and rock and roll, causing pandemonium in their wake, but the lifestyle caught up with Duff, leaving him close to death.
It’s So Easy And Other Lies began production this past March by filming one of Duff's book readings at the Moore Theatre in Seattle, and recent performances with his bands WALKING PAPERS and LOADED. The film will contain rare archive footage from Marc Canter, who filmed all the early footage of Guns N' Roses behind the scenes and performances, as well as an ultimate collector's soundtrack for the fans.
Vision Films will be screening a teaser and some selected clips from It’s So Easy And Other Lies to buyers at their stand in the Riviera in Cannes.
Further details can be found here.