The allure of the late Jeff Buckley is on full display in a new trailer for the documentary It’s Never Over, which, as previously reported, will be released theatrically in the United States on Aug. 8 and will be available on HBO and HBO Max in the winter under the Music Box series umbrella.
“I mean, he was literally the best singer I ever heard,” singer/songwriter Aimee Mann enthuses in a new trailer about Buckley, who accidentally drowned in Memphis at the age of 30 in 1997 while recording the follow-up to his acclaimed 1994 debut, Grace.
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It’s Never Over premiered at Sundance in January after years in the making. Among the subjects interviewed for it are Buckley’s mother, Mary Guibert, bandmates Michael Tighe and Parker Kindred, ex-partners Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser and musicians such as Mann and Ben Harper.
Several clips in the trailer show Buckley bristling when asked questions about his late father, British folk legend Tim Buckley, whom he barely knew as a child. “My main influences: love, anger, depression and Zeppelin,” he says with a smile at one point.
While reminding viewers of Buckley’s immense musical talents, the trailer also reveals a tortured and fatalistic edge to his personality. “I’ve been wrong, I’ve been completely ugly, I’ve been beautiful, I’ve been totally in love, I’ve been hideous, but I’ve never been dead,” he tells one journalist. Wasser recalls in another excerpt, “he said, I have to tell you something about me. I’m not gonna last that long.”
It’s Never Over is produced by director Amy Berg in tandem with Ryan Heller, Christine Connor, Mandy Chang, Matthew Roozen and Jennie Bedusa. Among the executive producers is Brad Pitt, who first approached Guibert years ago about starring in a biopic about her son.
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