Gia Coppola to Direct Boy Band Documentary Superfans: Screaming. Crying. Throwing Up.

The project is based on Maria Sherman’s Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands From NKOTB to BTS
Backstreet Boys Fans 1996
Backstreet Boys fans, December 1996 (Paul Bergen/Redferns)

Gia Coppola is set to direct a forthcoming documentary titled Superfans: Screaming. Crying. Throwing Up., as Deadline reports. The project is based on the 2020 book Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands From NKOTB to BTS by journalist and Pitchfork contributor Maria Sherman. Coppola will co-produce the project along with Jason Bateman’s production company Aggregate Films.

Coppola’s last feature-length project was 2020’s Mainstream, a comedy-drama starring Andrew Garfield and Maya Hawke. Prior to that, she’d directed a handful of music videos: Yves Tumor’s “Applaud,” Blood Orange’s “You’re Not Good Enough,” and Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Cut to the Feeling” and “Your Type.”

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Maria Sherman: Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands From NKOTB to BTS