Rush Documentary Out In May?

Rush are prog rock legends and will be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame next month, so it's kind of hard to believe there's never been an official documentary made about them.

But that will change with Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen's aptly titled Rush: The Documentary, which could be released as early as May 18, according to Rush fansite Power Windows. No official announcement's been made yet.

The Toronto filmmakers are known for previous work like Global Metal and Heavy Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. They've been given exclusive access to the band's personal archives, according to Prog magazine, which also reports Rush: The Documentary will feature interviews with artists like Trent Reznor, Tool, Foo Fighters, KISS and Billy Corgan, who've all been inspired by Rush.

"Geddy [Lee, singer/bassist] had been in Heavy Metal: A Headbanger's Journey and we were thinking about other bands we could work with," McFadyen told Classic Rock magazine about the film. "We felt that Rush had always been overlooked by critics so we met them on tour and they liked what we said."

The documentary has kind of thrown Lee off, though.

"To be involved in the documentary has been hard from that point of view, because they're making so much of things we've done in the past, and asking questions about details 25, 30 years ago — a lot of them have just gone out of my head," Lee told Walrus magazine.

"It's a bit uncomfortable dwelling so much on what has happened. I'm more comfortable looking forward and not being constantly aware of how long i've been in the same band.

"The very business of looking back — through archival footage and photographs — can feel self-indulgent. You want to spend your time thinking about things other than your own face."

Last February, guitarist Alex Lifeson said Rush would begin working on the follow-up to 2007's Snakes & Arrows in the fall of 2009 with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Thornley).

Before that's released (no definite date's been set), though, they'll be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame on March 28.