The Dirt: Director Jeff Tremaine Interview

With The Dirt now streaming on Netflix, I recently sat down with director Jeff Tremaine to talk about making his Mötley Crüe movie. If you haven’t seen the trailers, the film is an adaptation of the of the 2001 memoir The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band, which was co-written by the band and Neil Strauss. The film follows how Mötley Crüe first formed, features plenty of wild nights in the 1980s, and chronicles the group’s rise to become one of the world’s most famous heavy metal bands. Douglas Booth plays Nikki Sixx, Colson Baker plays Tommy Lee, Iwan Rheon plays Mick Mars, and Daniel Webber plays Vince Neil. The film also stars Pete Davidson as Tom Zutaut.

During the interview, Tremaine talked about his long history on the project, why he wanted this to be his first narrative feature, how he decided which Mötley Crüe songs and stories to use in the film, if the film changed a lot in the editing room, whether they thought about making a miniseries or something other than a feature with the material, if Netflix might release any delete scenes or a commentary, and more. In addition, Tremaine explained why he decided to prank his director of photography every day on set by pretending it was his birthday.

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