‘This Is Spinal Tap’ Will Get a Sequel Next Year

One of the best comedies within the historical past of cinema will lastly proceed in a sequel. This Is Still Spinal Tap, anybody?

In an look on the RHLSTP With Richard Herring podcast, This Is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner confirmed that the sequel, which is able to characteristic all of the core members of everybody’s favourite pathetic heavy steel band Spinal Tap — David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) — will return in a new film, together with precise official rock stars Paul McCartney, Elton John and Garth Brooks.

The sequel, which was initially introduced again on the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, is ready to enter manufacturing in 2024. Supposedly the movie will “mimic” Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz, the well-known live performance movie that documented the ultimate peformance of The Band earlier than they broke up.

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Here was Reiner’s earlier assertion on why, all these years later, he determined to make one other Spinal Tap:

The plan is to do a sequel that comes out on the fortieth anniversary of the unique movie and I can let you know hardly a day goes by with out somebody saying, why don’t you do one other one? For so a few years, we stated, ‘nah.’ It wasn’t till we got here up with the precise concept how to do that. You don’t need to simply do it, to do it. You need to honor the primary one and push it a little additional with the story.

Spinal Tap debuted on a sketch particular referred to as The T.V. Show from 1979. The This Is Spinal Tap movie, an ingenious fake documentary, adopted a few years later, and for a whereas, McKean, Guest, and Shearer toured as Spinal Tap, taking part in live shows. (They had been even the musical friends on an episode of Saturday Night Live.)

In 1992, they launched an album of latest songs, Break Like the Wind; in 2009, they launched one other album, Back From the Dead. The actual males who painting Spinal Tap additionally subsequently created a second fictional band, the Folksmen, whose made-up historical past was chronicled in one other faux documentary, A Mighty Wind. 

I don’t know if this new Spinal Tap can be good or dangerous, however one factor is for certain about it: The band’s drummer resides on borrowed time.

[H/T Variety]

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