The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has shared the first trailer for No One’s Disciple, a documentary about late Rush drummer Neil Peart. Peart’s bandmates, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, both get talking heads, as do a couple of his drummer peers: Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith and the Police’s Stewart Copeland. “After Neil passed away, we never really were able to pay tribute to him,” Lee says in one clip. “And that weighed on me a lot.” Watch the preview below.
Based on the trailer, No One’s Disciple also features archival interview footage of Peart himself. At one point, he describes how, “When I started to get around 11 or 12 years old I was banging around the house and smashing up pots and pans, and my parents got the idea that I liked to hit things with sticks.”
Co-directed by Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn, No One’s Disciple will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 16. A wide release date for the documentary has not been set. Lee and Lifeson are currently knee-deep into their mammoth Fifty Something World Tour, with new touring drummer Anika Nilles filling in for Peart.
Revisit Noah Yoo’s column Remembering Rush’s Ridiculously Good Drummer Neil Peart With 5 Live Videos.