Official RONNIE JAMES DIO Documentary Is ‘About Perseverance, Dreams And The Power To Believe In Yourself’

“Dio: Dreamers Certainly not Die”, the career-spanning documentary on the life and situations of the legendary rock icon Ronnie James Dio, will get hold of its world premiere this week on the SXSW Film Competitors in Austin, Texas.

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“Dio: Dreamers Certainly not Die” is the first documentary about Dio to be completely licensed by the artist’s property. In response to the film’s official description, it “delves deep into his unbelievable rise from ’50s doo-wop crooner to his early conventional rock days in Ritchie Blackmore‘s RAINBOW, to altering the enduring lead singer Ozzy Osbourne in BLACK SABBATH, to lastly cement his legend with DIO. Ronnie‘s biography is completely distinctive to the drained intercourse, remedy and rock and roll clichés. The film is about perseverance, wishes and the power to think about in your self.”

“Dio: Dreamers Certainly not Die” was financed solely by BMG and was helmed by Don Argott and Demian Fenton (“Framing John DeLorean”, “Believer”, “Closing Days Proper right here”), produced by Don Argott and Sheena Joyce for 9.14 Photographs, and authorities produced by Wendy Dio, partner and longtime supervisor of Ronnie James Dio, for Niji Productions and Kathy Rivkin Daum for BMG.

Argott suggested CB that Dio wouldn’t have the “archetypical” rock and roll story. “He’s principally had three unbelievable careers that, frankly, any artist could possibly be lucky enough to have a sort of careers,” he said. “From a storytelling standpoint, we checked out the way in which you inform that story and by no means make it actually really feel want it’s the equivalent story repeatedly. Historic previous presents its private group of challenges that you might want to overcome. It’s a little bit of refreshing to not be the on a regular basis ‘Behind The Music’ by-the-numbers rock documentary the place each little factor is pretty anticipated.”

Fenton added: “It’s a story that I actually really feel like we merely need now. It’s so beautiful that you’re this heavy metallic dude and in addition you assume you notice the story stuffed with darkness, nonetheless it’s really a story of righteousness and perseverance and packaged on this fascinating world.”

Ronnie James Dio‘s story transcends the standard rock documentary. Set in opposition to the backdrop of Dio‘s autobiography — half accomplished by Ronnie sooner than his untimely demise from stomach most cancers in 2010 — the film chronicles the inspiring journey of his life, love, and storied occupation. Whether or not or not having fun with sold-out stadiums or battling illness, his extremely efficient voice and delicate coronary coronary heart have had a profound have an effect on on his family, associates, and followers everywhere in the world.

Wendy Dio not too way back suggested Argentinian journalist Lucas Gordon about “Dio: Dreamers Certainly not Die”: “I seen the first scale back of it. It was very emotional. It’s extraordinarily completely totally different from [Dio‘s autobiography]. ‘Set off the e book finishes in 1986, with Ronnie having fun with Madison Sq. Yard. Nonetheless the documentary goes all by means of his life till the tip. And it was very emotional. I was watching it with my publicist and a person from BMG, who’re funding the documentary. And all of us cried. It was very emotional. However it absolutely’s really fascinating and truly good. Rob Halford is good in it, talking about tales. Lita Ford [and] Jack Black [are also in it]. Eddie Trunk [SiriusXM radio personality] and Mick Wall [author of Dio‘s autobiography] every kind of narrated it and each little factor. I’m very happy with it.”

Closing August, Wendy suggested SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” about what followers can anticipate to see throughout the documentary: “There’s a bunch of stuff from [old] Great 8 [tapes] and one other stuff. There’s unbelievable interviews with each type of varied of us about after they’d been working with Ronnie or what they’d been doing on the time, maybe supporting Ronnie. It’s very completely totally different to the [recently released Dio] e book. And I’m very to see this scale back. I’m excited, actually, to see it. And I consider it’s gonna be good.”

In October 2019, Wendy suggested the WSOU radio station that the documentary “will go from Ronnie‘s childhood all by means of [to the end of his life]. I consider they interviewed Jack Black, and I consider they interviewed all of Ronnie‘s bandmembers and Doug Aldrich and, I consider, Jeff Pilson. They’d been on the purpose of go to Arizona to interview Rob Halford and Lita Ford. After which they’d been going into England to interview Tony Iommi. They already did Geezer [Butler]. So there’ll in all probability be very fascinating tales from completely totally different of us. I consider it’s going to be a superb issue, and it’ll current of us a lot of points that people have in no way seen sooner than.”

Ronnie James Dio handed away of stomach most cancers on May 16, 2010 on the age of 67.

Dio was renowned all by means of the world as one among many greatest and most influential vocalists in heavy metallic historic previous. The singer, who was recording and touring with BLACK SABBATH offshoot HEAVEN & HELL earlier to his illness, was recognized with stomach most cancers in late 2009. He underwent chemotherapy and made what’s now his final public look in April 2010 on the Revolver Golden Gods Awards in Los Angeles.

Dio‘s autobiography, titled “Rainbow In The Darkish: The Autobiography”, was launched last July by means of Permuted Press.