Production on the sequel to Rob Reiner’s 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap has formally begun with Elton John, Paul McCartney and more celebs set to appear.
Cowritten and directed by Reiner, This Is Spinal Tap stars Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer as the fictional heavy steel band Spinal Tap. A satire of the rock bands and the rock documentaries about them, This Is Spinal Tap is now considered a cult vintage.
The long-awaited follow-up, This Is Spinal Tap II, recently started filming in New Orleans, Variety reported on Monday, March 11, nearly precisely 40 years after the first film was once released on March 2, 1984.
At the time, Spinal Tap marked Reiner’s directorial debut. Now, he's going to go back to helm the sequel along with Guest, McKean and Shearer, who will reprise their respective roles from the original: guitarist Nigel Tufnel, frontman David St. Hubbins and bassist Derek Smalls. Reiner, for his section, will reprise his function as the documentarian Martin “Marty” DiBergi.
“I latterly spoke to Marty DiBergi who mentioned that he was once more than pleased to take a sabbatical from his place as a visiting Professor’s Assistant at the Ed Wood School of Cinematic Arts to as soon as again file Spinal Tap to ensure their position in the pantheon of Rock and Roll,” Reiner mentioned in a statement.
Cameos from Questlove and Trisha Yearwood have been confirmed for the sequel, in conjunction with rock ‘n roll legends John and McCartney and country icon Garth Brooks. Reiner showed the cameos from John, McCartney and Brooks on the “RHLSTP with Richard Herring” podcast in November 2023.
(*2*)“We’re making a sequel,” Reiner mentioned at the time. “We’re gonna start capturing at the finish of February. And everyone’s back. And Paul McCartney is joining us, and Elton John, and a couple of different surprises. Garth Brooks.”
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This Is Spinal Tap II — which, like the original, was cowritten by means of Guest, McKean, Reiner and Shearer — will stick with England’s loudest band as they reunite after 15 years apart for one last concert.
“When it was once introduced that Spinal Tap would reunite for one ultimate live performance, Marty DiBergi saw this as a possibility to make things proper with the band who seen This Is Spinal Tap as a hatchet task,” Reiner said in a May 2022 observation via Entertainment Weekly when the sequel used to be first introduced.
This Is Spinal Tap II was at the beginning slated for a March 19, 2024 premiere to coincide with the movie’s original unencumber date. However, manufacturing was behind schedule due to the dual SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America (WGA) strikes in 2023. A brand new unencumber date for Spinal Tap II has not yet been showed.
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