Questlove’s unique documentary about funk pioneer Sly Stone will premiere on Hulu starting February thirteenth, 2025, following its debut on the 2025 Sundance Movie Pageant.
Titled Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius), the movie will characteristic a star-studded visitor listing together with André 3000, D’Angelo, Chaka Khan, Q-Tip, Nile Rogers, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, George Clinton, Ruth Copeland, and Clive Davis.
Bandmates from Sly and the Household Stone and relations Sylvette Phunne Robinson, Novena Carmel, and Sylvester Stewart Jr. are additionally set to seem. Watch a short teaser trailer beneath.
Questlove and Sly Stone beforehand labored collectively on the singer’s memoir. The drummer penned the foreword for Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), which in October 2023 grew to become the primary ebook printed on Questlove’s AUWA Books imprint.
Sly Lives! is Questlove’s newest documentary following his 2021 Oscar-winning debut, Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised). He’s subsequent set to helm Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music, a brand new movie about Saturday Evening Stay’s musical legacy, which can premiere on January twenty seventh on NBC.
