Bon Jovi Documentary Headed To Showtime

A world without at least one documentary about Bon Jovi just seems…incomplete.

When We Were Beautiful will fix that. Showtime has just acquired the Bon Jovi documentary, which will premiere Oct. 24. Directed by filmmaker and photographer Phil Griffin, the documentary was filmed on the road and behind the scenes during the band’s 2008 Lost Highway World Tour, which closed with a big concert in New York City’s Central Park..

You want more Tico Torres. You got it!

“Throughout the process of working with Bon Jovi, I was amazed at the candor and humility Jon and his band showed me,” said director Phil Griffin.

“The result is not a neatly wrapped up bundle of staged interviews and musical interludes, but rather a series of open and sometimes difficult conversations, explored against a backdrop of music spanning 25 years.

It is a film about the peace of Tico, the complexity of Richie, the drive of Jon and the brutal honesty of Dave. It is their willingness to share their stories that gives us what I hope is a very human story-that humanity is what I believe has seen this band stand the test of time.”

Plenty of folks gave up on these Jersey guys around the time “”I’ll Be There for You” was played for the billionth time, but let’s at least tip our hats to Jon Bon Jovi and Co.’s enduring popularity, able to roll with the punches and stay relevant and successful all these years.

Their first album came out in 1984!

Bon Jovi has definitely taken their share of knocks for simply following the clichéd, arena-rock template, but sometimes that’s okay – sometimes that’s all we want.

A new studio album, The Circle will be released on November 10th, plus Harper Collins will release a 192-page companion book on Oct 27th also titled When We Were Beautiful.

But let’s talk about the title: When We Were Beautiful. It’s awful. It’s schmaltzy, and sounds like the memoirs of a former super model, or the title of a Vanity Fair fashion spread about former super models. In fact, it’s such a perfectly perfect title for a movie that it’s too good to like.

Do you get Showtime? If so, will you watch any of the Bon Jovi documentary?