Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s basketball documentary, “Hoop Dreams PT. 2” , errr… “Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot'” will hit select theaters on June 27 — one day after the draft. The soundtrack will feature tracks by Jay-Z, the Notorious B.I.G., Nas, Lil Wayne and — you guessed it — the Beastie Boys (a new track recorded for the film, titled “Bass Line Is Nice”).
Yauch, might have shot various Beastie Boy videos under the not-so-secret guise of Nathaniel Hörnblowér, and the Beasties cheap-ass, fan-shot concert film, “Awesome! I Fucking Shot That,” but ‘Spot’ was an education in real filmmaking.
“The original idea was to shoot the movie, edit it in, like, three months, and actually try and have it done at the beginning of 2007, but editing never works like that,” he told MTV. “Once you get into [post-production], it always goes slowly and it’s more complicated. It kinda got to a point when I was a year into it when I thought, ‘Man, if we can finish it by June, it’ll be done when these guys are eligible for the draft.’ And then we really started cranking on it and trying to get it down for now.” [MTV]
Watch: ” Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot” Preview trailer