The Dirt (film)

The Dirt
Official release poster
Directed byJeff Tremaine
Written by
Based onThe Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
by Neil Strauss
Tommy Lee
Mick Mars
Vince Neil
Nikki Sixx
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyToby Oliver
Edited byMelissa Kent
Music byPaul Haslinger
Production
companies
Distributed byNetflix
Release dates
  • March 18, 2019 (2019-03-18) (Hollywood)
  • March 22, 2019 (2019-03-22) (United States)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$23.1 million[1]

The Dirt is a 2019 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jeff Tremaine and written by Rich Wilkes and Amanda Adelson, about heavy metal/glam metal band Mötley Crüe. The film stars Douglas Booth, Colson Baker, Daniel Webber and Iwan Rheon.

Talks of a Mötley Crüe biopic began as early as 2006, when Paramount Pictures and MTV Films purchased the rights to the book The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by the band and Neil Strauss; however, the project then languished in development hell for over a decade, going through numerous directors and cast members before Netflix purchased the rights in March 2017. Filming began around New Orleans in February 2018.

The Dirt was released digitally on Netflix on March 22, 2019. It received generally negative reviews from critics, who said the film would please fans but that it hesitated "in handling the more troubling aspects of the band's history."[2]

  1. ^ "Initial Certification Search" (Type "Dirt" in the search box). Fastlane NextGen. Archived from the original on July 16, 2022. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
  2. ^ "The Dirt review round-up: What critics are saying about Netflix's Mötley Crüe biopic". The Independent. March 22, 2019. Archived from the original on 2022-06-18. Retrieved March 25, 2019.