A couple of weeks ago it was announced that Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch was working on a documentary about college basketball prospects called Gunnin’ For That No. 1 Spot (due out June 27th). While it seems unlikely that this movie could become the next Hoop Dreams, I was interested in the story if for no other reason then because MCA had seemingly been bitten by the filmmaking bug. After directing some of the band’s music videos over the years under the alias Nathaniel Hornblower, last year he directed the full-length Beastie Boys concert film Awesome: I Fuckin’ Shot That, which was edited together from footage shot by a bunch of fans who were given camcorders to capture the show in any way they wanted.

So then I got to thinking… whatever became of the Beastie Boys comedy that was supposedly in the works around the time that Ill Communication came out? They had mentioned it numerous times in interviews around that period, and Spike Jonze was supposedly going to direct it, but like many B-Boys projects, it never actually happened. Now, with Yauch suddenly intent on doing some directing of his own, some people seem to think that a fictional Beastie Boys movie might be back on the table again. While there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of strong evidence to support this, Beastie Boys fansite Mic to Mic points out that the New York Times and Hollywood.com both recently listed the movie (originally called We Can Do This) as a project in development under Spike Jonze’s filmography.

Now, if anything, I would think Jonze is too busy nowadays to work on something like this, and with the Beastie Boys somewhat past their prime they might not have the same draw that they used to. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if Yauch himself decided to take on the project after his basketball doc, and given the creativity of many of their past music videos, I’d definitely love to see what they come up with. Would you be interested in seeing a Beastie Boys movie?