The sequel to Rob Reiner’s This Is Spinal Tap was introduced final 12 months, and meant for launch in 2024 to coincide with the unique movie’s fortieth anniversary. Sadly, the actors’ strike delayed the beginning of the movie, so it might not make that deadline. Nonetheless, “We’re going to begin capturing in the long run of February and everyone is again,” Reiner mentioned in a brand new interview on the RHLSTP With Richard Herring podcast.
“Everyone” is Christopher Visitor, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer, the members of the titular, fictional band. They’re not the one ones who’re in: “Paul McCartney is becoming a member of us, and Elton John. And some different surprises, Garth Brooks,” Reiner teased. Reiner may even reprise his position because the fictional filmmaker Marty DiBergi. The director beforehand told NME, “Marty DiBergi was roundly criticized by the band members for having achieved a hatchet job, [but] he’s going to be doing the second movie.” As to what Marty’s been as much as within the intervening years, Reiner defined, “Marty has not been that profitable [since]. I feel he made Kramer vs Kramer vs Godzilla, which didn’t do very nicely. It was a threesome, and so they had been all in love… and, sadly, Godzilla crushed the opposite two, so it didn’t work.”
As for the actual movie (not the film-within-a-film), Reiner shared with NME, “We by no means thought we might do a sequel. It was solely as a result of we began to speak to one another and we got here up with an concept we expect would possibly work – we don’t know it is going to. We’re going to attempt. The bar is extremely excessive. We debated whether or not or not we must always do it… I mentioned, ‘Take a look at us, we’re all in our 70s. How a lot time are we going to have [left] to have some enjoyable?’”
And if individuals don’t “get” the Spinal Faucet sequel, nicely, they didn’t actually “get” Spinal Faucet at first, both. “After we first previewed it, we previewed it in a theater in Dallas, Texas, and folks … they didn’t know what the heck they had been ,” Reiner recalled on the podcast. “They got here as much as me afterward and mentioned, ‘I don’t perceive. Why would you make a film a couple of band that no person’s ever heard of? They usually’re so unhealthy! Why would you do this?’ … They mentioned, ‘It’s best to make a film in regards to the Beatles or the Rolling Stones.’” And now all these years later, the Spinal Faucet sequel may have an precise Beatle in it—who’d’ve thunk!
