Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" documentary is expected to hit theaters and on demand services Sept. 28, chronicling her improbable, history-making climb in the music industry performing in a rock genre dominated by men, Rolling Stone magazine reported.
"Bad Reputation," which was directed by Kevin Kerslake, allows Jett to tell her story – from receiving her first guitar at 13, to joining the all-female rock group the Runaways, becoming a solo act, then forming Blackheart Records, Rolling Stone said.
A trailer for the documentary was released Tuesday, with vintage photos of Jett from the start of her career, defying critics who thought she was out of place in the hard rock genre.
In the trailer, Jett, whose real name is Joan Marie Larkin, said she received resistance from the very start, remembering the comments she heard when she first took guitar lessons, the magazine wrote.
"I went and took a lesson and the guy said, 'Girls don't play rock and roll," Jett, 59, said, according to Rolling Stone. "And I said, 'Bull.'"
Billboard magazine described Jett's transformation since that early encounter "like a superhero origin story."
"Turns out she was right," Billboard wrote. "But as the trailer shows, it was not easy sledding breaking through the just-dudes rock club mentality, with some batteries and beer bottles tossed her way (along with heartless reviews from Rolling Stone magazine) on the climb up the ladder."
Spin magazine said the trailer also teased interviews by Kathleen Hanna, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Iggy Pop.
In the meantime, Jett and her band the Blackhearts, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, are still rocking, playing Thursday at the Lake of the Torches Casino in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin.
From there, the band will perform in Canada and across the country in Pennsylvania, New York, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, California, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and New Jersey, according to its website.
The band will play for two-month long tour in Australia to open 2019, noted Jett's website.