Director Rob Reiner has started to shed some light as to what you can expect from the long-awaited Spinal Tap 2 movie!
Of course, the sequel is a follow-up to the 1984 mockumentary, This Is Spinal Tap. That movie stars Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer as the hapless heavy metal trio, all of whom are making their return to the second movie!
Reiner did an interview with Empire and shared some of Spinal Tap 2’s plotlines. And yes, Paul McCartney and Elton John WILL appear in the movie.
Reiner said the movie, which is set for release “sometime late spring or early summer” of 2025, is set to open with sharing what singer David St. Hubbins, guitarist Nigel Tufnel and bassist Derek Smalls have been doing since the disbandment of Spinal Tap.
Reiner said, “Nigel has been running a cheese and guitar shop in Berwick-upon-Tweed. He’s also been performing with a local folk band in the village that play penny whistle and mandolin, and he plays electric guitar with them. We show a little clip of that.”
He added, “David St. Hubbins has been living in Morro Bay in California, and he’s been writing music for podcasts, particularly this one true-crime podcast called ‘The Trouble With Murder.’ He also writes the music that you hear when you’re on hold on the phone.
“Derek is living in London and is now the curator of the New Museum of Glue. He’s curated glue from every country in the world – the whole history of glue – and he shows me around. He’s also been performing with a philharmonic orchestra, and he’s written this kind of symphony about the fact that the devil wears a bad hair piece. It’s called Hell Toupée.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Reiner opened up about where the inspiration came from, saying the idea for Spinal Tap 2 came from the passing of Tony Hendra – who portrayed Spinal Tap’s manager Ian Faith in the 1984 film.
“We came up with this idea that Ian Faith had willed his daughter, Hope, this contract that called for one more performance. She thinks initially, ‘Well, this is not really worth anything…’ But then some big music star, while screwing around at a sound check, is filmed on an iPhone singing a Tap song, and it goes wild on social media. All of a sudden, the contract is worth something.”
Renier also talked about the movie’s soundtrack album. “It’ll have a couple of cuts by Elton John and one cut by Paul McCartney – songs that they sing in the film, which aren’t Spinal Tap-type songs, they’re ones that people know. But the rest of them are new.”
He added, “There’s a scene where Henry Diltz, the very famous rock photographer, takes them to a cemetery in New Orleans. Nigel’s like, ‘Why are we here? All these people are dead.’ And Henry says, ‘Well, you’ve got to get used to this idea. You know, it’s going to happen.’
“Then Derek has this idea of what it’s going to be like after he dies. So he’s got this song called ‘Rockin’ In The Urn’ which is all about the fact that even after he’s dead, he’s still going to be performing.”
Cool to hear some plot details, hey?
Do you think Spinal Tap 2 will even come close to how good the original is? It’s a lofty goal, right?
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