'How Can You Mend a Broken Heart' Trailer: The Bee Gees: Get The Music Doc Treatment From Frank Marshall & HBO

When people discuss the pop group the Bee Gees, the conversation generally veers towards disco and the “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack they wrote that won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, and made them global superstars. But the Bee Gees, who were born to English parents, but grew up and formed their musical identity in Australia, are so much more than just disco kings. In fact, their early career in the 1960s is quite good and is very Beatles-esque with a psychedelic ’60s pop sound (Bee Gees 1st, Horizontal, and Odessa are all worth checking out). It remains to be seen how much of that will be explored, but a new HBO documentary, “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” will dive deeper into the legacy of his iconic pop group.

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While the festival never took place, “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” was an official selection of the 2020 Telluride Film Festival. The film is by filmmaker Frank Marshall, arguably one of the most famous film producers in the world, married to Lucasfilm’s Kathryn Kennedy, a co-founder of Steven Spielberg‘s Amblin Entertainment, and the producer of many classic films such as “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” and the entire Indiana Jones franchise, “Poltergeist,” “Back To The Future,” “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” and many more classics. Marshall has also directed films like “Arachnophobia,” “Alive” and “Congo,” but this is his first directed documentary, so it must be near and dear to him.

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Marshall also produces alongside Nigel Sinclair and Jeanne Elfant Festa, part of the award-winning team behind HBO’s “The Apollo” and “George Harrison: Living in the Material World,” and Mark Monroe. The film is a Polygram Entertainment presentation of a Kennedy/Marshall and White Horse Pictures production in association with Diamond Docs. Here’s the official synopsis:

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The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Frank Marshall (“Seabiscuit,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”) chronicles the triumphs and hurdles of brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, otherwise known as the Bee Gees. The iconic trio, who found early fame in the Sixties, went on to write over 1,000 songs, including twenty number one hits throughout their storied career. This film follows the Bee Gee’s meteoric rise, as they rode the highs of fame and fortune, negotiated the vagaries of the ever-shifting music business, and navigated the complexities of working so intimately alongside family.

“The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” premieres on HBO on December 12. Watch the first trailer below.