Rob Reiner's THIS IS SPINAL TAP Sequel Set To Start Shooting Early Next Year!
A couple of years ago it was announced that Rob Reiner was going to be directing a sequel to his hilarious 1984 mockumentary comedy This is Spinal Tap. This is one of my favorite comedies of all time, and I never expected to see a sequel get made, but it’s really happening.
Reiner recently offered an update on the RHLSTP with Richard Herring podcast, and he said that the film will start shooting next year: “We’re making a sequel. We’re going to start shooting in the end of February and everybody is back.”
Reiner also teased that Paul McCartney, Elton John, Garth Brooks and “a few other surprises” would be making cameos in the film, which is sure to be fun to see. The main cast includes Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer as members of the fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap. Reiner played the character of Marty DiBergi, a filmmaker in the mockumentary that chronicles the lives of the band during their American tour.
Reiner went on to say: “The plan is to do a sequel that comes out on the 40th anniversary of the original film and I can tell you hardly a day goes by without someone saying, why don’t you do another one? For so many years, we said, ‘nah.’ It wasn’t until we came up with the right idea how to do this. You don’t want to just do it, to do it. You want to honor the first one and push it a little further with the story.”
The sequel will be “in the style of Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz, the legendary concert documentary that followed the farewell tour of the Canadian American rock group The Band.” The movie will also feature real-life musicians in the film but no names have been revealed.
The first film chronicled the lives of the fictional English heavy metal band members played by McKean as David St. Hubbins, Guest as Nigel Tufnel, and Shearer as Derek Smalls. The movie “shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.”
If you haven’t watched This is Spinal Tap, you need to watch it now! You’ll laugh your ass off! Hopefully, the sequel will dial the comedy up to 11.
Via: Deadline