May 12, 20223 yr Honestly, if it isn't named Spinal Tap 11, then they have failed. https://deadline.com/2022/05/spinal-tap-sequel-rob-reiner-michael-mckean-christopher-guest-harry-shearer-back-1235022317/ Quote After relaunching its film division last October, Castle Rock Entertainment has set a first project out of the gate that will have a familiar ring. It’s Spinal Tap II, a sequel to the fabled rock mockumentary that set the film company on a run of hits, many of them directed by Rob Reiner. He made his directorial debut on the 1984 cult classic This Is Spinal Tap. Reiner will direct the sequel and return as filmmaker Marty DiBergi. Also back are David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer), and Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), the nucleus of England’s loudest and sauciest heavy metal band. Quote The package comes after the Cannes Film Festival announced the original will screen on the beach as part of the Cinema de la Plage sidebar on Wednesday, May 18th. The film was released to critical acclaim in 1984. In 2002, it was deemed “culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress, and was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry. Spoiler The company will fully finance, and CAA Media Finance will handle worldwide sales at the Cannes Market next week. Guest, McKean, Reiner, and Shearer will conceive the new film. Frank Marshall will produce and Matthew George, Jonathan Fuhrman and Hernan Narea will executive produce on behalf of Castle Rock. George is CR co-president with Michele Reiner. Deadline caught up with Reiner, and here is how he described the ambition: “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 three members, who wrote the music and lyrics — some with Reiner — for standards like Smell the Glove, Hell Hole, Big Bottom and Lick My Love Pump, have in the past toured as the band, though not recently. “They’ve played Albert Hall, played Wembley Stadium, all over the country and in Europe,” Reiner said. “They haven’t spent any time together recently, and that became the premise. The idea was that Ian Faith, who was their manager, he passed away. In reality, Tony Hendra passed away. Ian’s widow inherited a contract that said Spinal Tap owed them one more concert. She was basically going to sue them if they didn’t. All these years and a lot of bad blood we’ll get into and they’re thrown back together and forced to deal with each other and play this concert.” The original was filled with rising talent, and there is a good chance that band members who watch the film over and over might find their way into the sequel. “Hopefully there will be some guest artists,’ Reiner said. “The thing I’ve heard from so many bands and we’re talking about possibly doing a couple books, but one will be Tap Moments that real bands have had. Like in the movie, they get stoned and can’t find the stage, that happened to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. When Nigel is frustrated by the little bread in the catering that won’t hold the cold cuts, that last one was taken from a Rolling Stone article about a tour Van Halen had when, in their rider, they didn’t want brown M&Ms. We had an original keyboard player, Jonathan Sinclair, who when he was with the band Uriah Heep, visited us and said they’d been book into a military base, and we put that in, too. When I met with Sting years ago, he said, I’ve seen that movie 50 times and every time I watch it I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Because it’s so much what happens. With all of that, we’ve had a lot of bands share their experiences and so hopefully we’ll include some of that in the film.” Reiner’s back onscreen as the director who filmed the band in the original. “I’m back playing Marty DiBergi,” he said. “The band was upset with the first film. They thought I did a hatchet job and this is a chance to redeem myself. I am such a big fan and I felt bad they didn’t like what they saw in the first film. When I heard they might get back together, I was a visiting adjunct teacher’s helper at the Ed Wood School of Cinematic Arts. I drop everything to document this final concert.” The film will be released March, 19 2024, and chances are initial audiences will have an easier time understanding the rhythms, than they did the first time around. “You have no idea what’s going to happen and the first time we screened in Dallas, they didn’t know what the hell it was,” Reiner said. “People came up to me and said, I don’t understand why would you make a movie about a band no one has heard of and is so bad. Why would you do it? I said, it’s satire and I would explain, but it took awhile for people to catch up to it. Now, it’s in the National Film Registry,” said Reiner, who relaunched Castle Rock with a $175 million film fund.
May 12, 20223 yr Honestly, if it isn't named Spinal Tap 11, then they have failed. https://deadline.com/2022/05/spinal-tap-sequel-rob-reiner-michael-mckean-christopher-guest-harry-shearer-back-1235022317/ After relaunching its film division last October, Castle Rock Entertainment has set a first project out of the gate that will have a familiar ring. It’s Spinal Tap II, a sequel to the fabled rock mockumentary that set the film company on a run of hits, many of them directed by Rob Reiner. He made his directorial debut on the 1984 cult classic This Is Spinal Tap. Reiner will direct the sequel and return as filmmaker Marty DiBergi. Also back are David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer), and Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), the nucleus of England’s loudest and sauciest heavy metal band. The package comes after the Cannes Film Festival announced the original will screen on the beach as part of the Cinema de la Plage sidebar on Wednesday, May 18th. The film was released to critical acclaim in 1984. In 2002, it was deemed “culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress, and was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry. Spoiler The company will fully finance, and CAA Media Finance will handle worldwide sales at the Cannes Market next week. Guest, McKean, Reiner, and Shearer will conceive the new film. Frank Marshall will produce and Matthew George, Jonathan Fuhrman and Hernan Narea will executive produce on behalf of Castle Rock. George is CR co-president with Michele Reiner. Deadline caught up with Reiner, and here is how he described the ambition: “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 three members, who wrote the music and lyrics — some with Reiner — for standards like Smell the Glove, Hell Hole, Big Bottom and Lick My Love Pump, have in the past toured as the band, though not recently. “They’ve played Albert Hall, played Wembley Stadium, all over the country and in Europe,” Reiner said. “They haven’t spent any time together recently, and that became the premise. The idea was that Ian Faith, who was their manager, he passed away. In reality, Tony Hendra passed away. Ian’s widow inherited a contract that said Spinal Tap owed them one more concert. She was basically going to sue them if they didn’t. All these years and a lot of bad blood we’ll get into and they’re thrown back together and forced to deal with each other and play this concert.” The original was filled with rising talent, and there is a good chance that band members who watch the film over and over might find their way into the sequel. “Hopefully there will be some guest artists,’ Reiner said. “The thing I’ve heard from so many bands and we’re talking about possibly doing a couple books, but one will be Tap Moments that real bands have had. Like in the movie, they get stoned and can’t find the stage, that happened to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. When Nigel is frustrated by the little bread in the catering that won’t hold the cold cuts, that last one was taken from a Rolling Stone article about a tour Van Halen had when, in their rider, they didn’t want brown M&Ms. We had an original keyboard player, Jonathan Sinclair, who when he was with the band Uriah Heep, visited us and said they’d been book into a military base, and we put that in, too. When I met with Sting years ago, he said, I’ve seen that movie 50 times and every time I watch it I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Because it’s so much what happens. With all of that, we’ve had a lot of bands share their experiences and so hopefully we’ll include some of that in the film.” Reiner’s back onscreen as the director who filmed the band in the original. “I’m back playing Marty DiBergi,” he said. “The band was upset with the first film. They thought I did a hatchet job and this is a chance to redeem myself. I am such a big fan and I felt bad they didn’t like what they saw in the first film. When I heard they might get back together, I was a visiting adjunct teacher’s helper at the Ed Wood School of Cinematic Arts. I drop everything to document this final concert.” The film will be released March, 19 2024, and chances are initial audiences will have an easier time understanding the rhythms, than they did the first time around. “You have no idea what’s going to happen and the first time we screened in Dallas, they didn’t know what the hell it was,” Reiner said. “People came up to me and said, I don’t understand why would you make a movie about a band no one has heard of and is so bad. Why would you do it? I said, it’s satire and I would explain, but it took awhile for people to catch up to it. Now, it’s in the National Film Registry,” said Reiner, who relaunched Castle Rock with a $175 million film fund. I can’t wait. Wonder what the drummer body count will be by now.
May 12, 20223 yr To be followed by princess bride II, the way they describe castle rock and Reiner restarting film production.
May 12, 20223 yr I am cautious with this. Spinal Tap is an all time classic. Doing a sequel rarely lives up to the original. I bet it has a ton of cameos.
May 12, 20223 yr We will find out David St. Hubbins has a younger brother and he will be played by Bob Odenkirk. Edited May 12, 20223 yr by Deej
May 12, 20223 yr 54 minutes ago, Moby Ric said: I am cautious with this. Spinal Tap is an all time classic. Doing a sequel rarely lives up to the original. I bet it has a ton of cameos. I wonder how many calls they fielded asking for a cameo as a drummer.
May 12, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, Moby Ric said: I am cautious with this. Spinal Tap is an all time classic. Doing a sequel rarely lives up to the original. I bet it has a ton of cameos.
May 13, 20223 yr Super Troopers 2 was about as close to good as a sequel to an iconic comedy has ever come, IMO. This one is going to be tough to pull off because, among other things, they are all old af. But hell so are the Stones. I hope it’s good but my money is on bad.
May 13, 20223 yr In like a motherfucker on this. Those of you worrying about it sound like a bunch of Artie Fufkins and you need your ass kicked, okay? Guest, McKean, Shearer and Reiner know what the fuck they're doing. As Reiner said in the linked interview, people have been asking them for decades to make a sequel but they declined because they weren't going to do it just to do it. I wonder if Nigel has been working as a salesman in a haberdasher or a chapeau shop or something all these years?
May 13, 20223 yr I wonder how many calls they fielded asking for a cameo as a drummer. Here’s my short list…Martha StewartAaron RodgersLincoln RileyBill ClintonRich StrikeFloSinbadWilliam Hung
May 13, 20223 yr 15 hours ago, Moby Ric said: I am cautious with this. Spinal Tap is an all time classic. Doing a sequel rarely lives up to the original. I bet it has a ton of cameos. Yeah, it will probably be a big letdown. Don’t mess with perfection. Can’t anyone come up with new ideas anymore?
May 13, 20223 yr I'm in. I'll take Guest, McKean and Shearer over another superhero movie all day every day.
May 13, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, Buzzrock said: This one is going to be tough to pull off because, among other things, they are all old af. If one of them has to die, I hope they play Lick My Love Pump at the funeral.
May 13, 20223 yr This wont be a remake. I can see it being about a reunion tour, trying, unsuccessfully, to relive the glory years. There is a lot of real life material with which to draw from.
May 13, 20223 yr This wont be a remake. I can see it being about a reunion tour, trying, unsuccessfully, to relive the glory years. There is a lot of real life material with which to draw from. It’s about the 40th anniversary of the doc. Ian has passed but his wife finds an old contract holding Tap to a concert. The movie is then about them putting the band together when they hate each other and don’t communicate. According to Marty DiBergi.
May 13, 20223 yr Author 8 minutes ago, Texzilla58 said: It’s about the 40th anniversary of the doc. Ian has passed but his wife finds an old contract holding Tap to a concert. The movie is then about them putting the band together when they hate each other and don’t communicate. According to Marty DiBergi. In other words, most any rock band "reunion" tour. Plenty of material for a second Tap movie.
May 13, 20223 yr I’m looking forward to Jazz Odyssey. Really hope Saucy Jack makes the soundtrack. SHUV’NER DOWN THE HOLE TO HADES. Edited May 13, 20223 yr by TheStoicPaisano
May 13, 20223 yr 4 hours ago, GhostOfTomJoad said: I wonder if Nigel has been working as a salesman in a haberdasher or a chapeau shop or something all these years? Still inventing
May 13, 20223 yr 5 hours ago, GhostOfTomJoad said: In like a motherfucker on this. Those of you worrying about it sound like a bunch of Artie Fufkins and you need your ass kicked, okay? Guest, McKean, Shearer and Reiner know what the fuck they're doing. As Reiner said in the linked interview, people have been asking them for decades to make a sequel but they declined because they weren't going to do it just to do it. I wonder if Nigel has been working as a salesman in a haberdasher or a chapeau shop or something all these years? This. There is AMPLE material for them to make fun of, re: aging rock bands. My guess is this is going to be great.
May 13, 20223 yr 8 hours ago, HornOnTheBayou said: If one of them has to die, I hope they play Lick My Love Pump at the funeral. I’ve been trying to figure that out on piano forever.
May 14, 20223 yr 4 hours ago, Buzzrock said: I’ve been trying to figure that out on piano forever. It's hard because it's simple lines intertwining. It's really influenced by Mozart and Bach. It's sort of in between those, really, it's like a Mach piece. Edited May 14, 20223 yr by HornOnTheBayou
March 14, 20241 yr 4 hours ago, futureman said: those guys are pros. I'm optimistic. Agreed. I hope they're not doing it just because they need the money. I'm hoping the script is really good.
March 14, 20241 yr Shearer and Guest are fucking loaded, and McKean, by far the poorest of the 3, is worth 12 million. Meathead is worth 200 million. They don't need the dough.
March 17Mar 17 September 12 release date. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/release-date-revealed-for-spinal-tap-2/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJFUCtleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHc8ruknXeCPnaarToI8-E_GCxxMO0FP1GAm-fKTlqS89M8TXh_ZMk8vaOw_aem_lGaXucSURwAMic05IrF48g
March 17Mar 17 Popular Post 22 minutes ago, Sbbruin said: September 12 release date. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/release-date-revealed-for-spinal-tap-2/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJFUCtleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHc8ruknXeCPnaarToI8-E_GCxxMO0FP1GAm-fKTlqS89M8TXh_ZMk8vaOw_aem_lGaXucSURwAMic05IrF48g Should have been November 11th.
March 17Mar 17 On 3/14/2024 at 4:56 PM, Hornius Emeritus said: Agreed. I hope they're not doing it just because they need the money. I'm hoping the script is really good. Isn’t the script in Christopher Guest movies a series of scene set ups or a few key jokes and the actors improv for a bunch of takes?
March 17Mar 17 On 3/14/2024 at 3:56 PM, Hornius Emeritus said: Agreed. I hope they're not doing it just because they need the money. I'm hoping the script is really good. I hope the main plot line is that the band is doing it because they need the money
March 17Mar 17 I don't see this being as fun because it will probably be a Las Vegas residency...although an argument about a residency v tour would be a funny scene.
March 17Mar 17 49 minutes ago, Sawbonz said: I hope the main plot line is that the band is doing it because they need the money Of course they do. You don't build up retirement money opening for puppet shows at Sea World. 40 minutes ago, dcar00 said: I don't see this being as fun because it will probably be a Las Vegas residency...although an argument about a residency v tour would be a funny scene. "All raisins have dents." - Nigel Tufnel
March 17Mar 17 1 hour ago, Sawbonz said: I hope the main plot line is that the band is doing it because they need the money I hope they actually tour again as Spinal Tap. God that was a fun fucking show.
March 17Mar 17 1 hour ago, Deej said: "All raisins have dents." - Nigel Tufnel No we're not going to do fucking stonehenge.
March 17Mar 17 32 minutes ago, thunderlounge said: I hope they actually tour again as Spinal Tap. God that was a fun fucking show. man that would be great but if they really want to send it off right, they'd do one final show at the O2 as a tribute to Ron Halpern, with Mick Shrimpton's son on drums.
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