Spinal Tap 2 (1 Viewer)

[Optimus Prime]

A sequel to the mockumentary This is Spinal Tap is in the works with the original director and cast.

Spinal Tap II will see Rob Reiner return as both film-maker on and off the screen along with Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Christopher Guest. The film will be released in 2024 on the 1984 original’s 40th anniversary.

“I can tell you hardly a day goes by without someone saying, why don’t you do another one?” Reiner said to Deadline. “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 plot will reportedly centre on the death of the fictional British band’s manager and his wife who then inherits a contract that requires them to do one last concert. There’s bad blood and anger towards Reiner’s film-maker Martin “Marty” Di Bergi who they feel did a hatchet job with the original documentary but returns to film their final hurrah.

While the original was met with critical acclaim, it wasn’t an initial hit commercially, later finding an audience on VHS instead. Reiner has said that initial viewers were confused……..

This is Spinal Tap sequel in the works with original team attached

Director Rob Reiner is bringing back the cast of the much-loved rock mockumentary for a follow-up set to be released in 2024

www.theguardian.com

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I mean sure, why not

 

[ChrisinNOLA]

They have aged. Still funny and watchable

 

[Brad Mojo]

11/10

 

[Yatman]

clever guys, certainly moreso than avg studio execs

mick, elton, macca and other oldsters still rolling, why not tap

 

[tenordas]

While I love Spinal Tap, I'm not sure where they'd go with a sequel. Part of the joke in the original film was that they were over the hill has-beens, so I can't see what angle they go with here.

 

[Madmarsha]

11/10

Oh, I'm thinking it better go all the way to 12. At least.

 

[sfidc3]

While I love Spinal Tap, I'm not sure where they'd go with a sequel. Part of the joke in the original film was that they were over the hill has-beens, so I can't see what angle they go with here.

I think they will at least in part mock the fact that 70+ year olds are still out there playing live music. Many critics hate that bands like The Moody Blues, The Stones, Yes, The Who, continued to play live well into their 70s....dubbing them dinosaurs....

 

[Yatman]

Jagger and the Stones have endured at the top longer than any other rock band, but as for the future, Jagger admits that it could all suddenly end. “I only meant to do it for two years. I guess the band would just disperse one day and say goodbye. I would continue to write and sing, but I’d rather be dead than sing 'Satisfaction' when I’m 45.”

 

[Optimus Prime]

CANNES, France — One of the most memorable lines — and Rob Reiner’s personal favorite — of “This Is Spinal Tap” goes: “There’s a fine line between stupid and clever.”


You could say the same thing about the classic 1984 mockumentary. It could have so easily not panned out. No one in Hollywood thought it was a good idea.

It was saved by Norman Lear who, after Reiner made his pitch and departed, is said to have turned to the executives in the room and announced: “Who’s going to tell him he can’t do it?”


Now, Reiner and company want to get the band back together for a sequel. Reiner was at the Cannes Film Festival this week for an anniversary screening on the beach of “This Is Spinal Tap” and to drum up excitement for the just-announced sequel that will also see Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest reprise their roles as band members David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls and Nigel Tufnel.


“The bar is high. There’s no question about it,” Reiner said in an interview by the beach. “And we wrestled with that forever, whether or not we should even bother to do it. But we had an idea. Over the years, people have come up and said, ‘Oh, you should do a sequel.’ We’ve always said, ‘No, no, no.’ But as time went by, we finally had something we think can work. And we’ll find out!”


The 1984 movie had no script, just a four-page outline. It was almost entirely improvised. Reiner’s first cut of the film was seven hours long.

Even the jokes they did have planned — like the infamous “these amps goes to 11” scene — were filmed off-the-cuff.

“Quick!” Reiner recalls shouting. “Make an amp with an extra number on it!”
But what teetered so close to never panning out in the first place, has of course become one of the most beloved comedies of the ‘80s and a massive influence to countless mockumentaries that have followed.

It is even in the Library of Congress.


Reiner assures that this time, too, there will be no screenplay. He will depend on the still sharp improvisational talents of his cast, who have carried on Spinal Tap — a fictional band turned into a semi-real one — in occasional concerts in the intervening decades.

Reiner’s character, the director Marti DeBergi (styled after Martin Scorsese in The Band concert documentary “The Last Waltz”), will naturally return……..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/with-sequel-plans-rob-reiner-turns-spinal-tap-up-to-11/2022/05/19/2d014c04-d76b-11ec-be17-286164974c54_story.html

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I winced a bit at the ‘still sharp improvisational talents’ - like everything else, that dulls with age as well

If they’re willing to continually rehearse a scene until they get a kernel, and then do it lots more until it fleshes out then fine
But these are no longer emerging talents plying their skills- these are certified comedic geniuses. Who’s going to keep pushing them until they take a good idea and make it great?

 

[buzd]

I don't care. I'll watch it. I'm still not going to the theater.

 

[austxsaintfan]

I'll definitely watch it!

 

[Optimus Prime]

Paul McCartney and Elton John will appear in the sequel to cult mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, for which filming is due to get under way early next year, it has been revealed.

Rob Reiner, director of the original 1984 release as well as the sequel, was speaking to comedian Richard Herring on the latter’s RHLSTP (Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast).

Reiner told Herring, after the latter expressed his admiration for This Is Spinal Tap, that “everybody’s back” for the sequel and that filming would begin at the end of February.

Reiner also said that “Paul McCartney is joining us, and Elton John”, along with US country music star Garth Brooks.…..

Paul McCartney and Elton John to appear in Spinal Tap sequel

Director of the beloved mock-rock-doc confirms filming will start on a sequel next year, with most of the original cast and a few new big names to feature

www.theguardian.com