The Spinal Faucet Sequel Arrives Subsequent Month: Watch the Trailer and a Scene with Elton John & Paul McCartney

This Is Spinal Faucet got here out greater than 40 years in the past. On the time, says direc­tor Rob Rein­er in a current inter­view at San Diego Com­ic-Con, “no one bought it. I imply, they thought I’d made a film about an actual band that was­n’t superb, and why would­n’t I make a film concerning the Bea­t­les or the Rolling Stones?” Certainly, sto­ries cir­cu­lat­ed of peo­ple within the music indus­attempt (includ­ing the late Ozzy Osbourne) not actual­iz­ing it was sup­posed to be a com­e­dy, so shut was its satire to their actu­al professional­fes­sion­al lives. Even­tu­al­ly, “the actual phrase begin­ed creep­ing in”: the fic­tion­al band “performed Glas­ton­bury, they performed Roy­al Albert Corridor and Wem­b­ley Sta­di­um.” Actual-life rock and pop musi­cians additionally grew to become followers of the movie. “Each time I see it,” Rein­er quotes Sting as say­ing, “I don’t know whether or not to snigger or cry.”

The sure­aries between Spinal Faucet’s world and the actual one have remained porous sufficient that the professional­duc­tion of the movie’s upcom­ing sequel Spinal Faucet II: The Finish Con­tin­ues has concerned an ideal many celebri­ties play­ing them­selves, or a minimum of ver­sions there­of.

Take, for examination­ple, the brand new­ly launched ver­sion of “Stone­henge,” whose music video fea­tures not simply Elton John, however — to the delight of some followers, and per­haps the dis­ap­level­ment of oth­ers — a cor­rect­ly scaled stage prop. The tune might be includ­ed on the album of The Finish Con­tin­ues, sched­uled for launch together with the movie on Sep­tem­ber twelfth, whose thir­teen tracks herald visitor stars like Paul McCart­ney, Garth Brooks, and Trisha Yr­wooden.

It’s been about fif­teen years for the reason that final Spinal Faucet album, a fac­tor the sequel incor­po­charges into its premise. “We cre­at­ed this complete concept that there’s dangerous blood, they’re not communicate­ing to every oth­er,” says Rein­er, “however they now are compelled togeth­er due to a con­tract” dic­tat­ing that they have to give one final per­for­mance, a prospect sud­den­ly made viable when their tune “Huge Bot­tom” goes viral. As unrec­og­niz­ready as each pop cul­ture in gen­er­al and the music indus­attempt in par­tic­u­lar have grow to be over the previous 4 a long time, Rein­er assures us that David St. Hub­bins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls “haven’t grown emo­tion­al­ly, musi­cal­ly, or artis­ti­cal­ly. They’re caught in that heavy-met­al world.” In a Hol­ly­wooden film, such a fla­grant lack of char­ac­ter devel­op­ment would con­sti­tute a vio­la­tion of sto­ry­telling legal guidelines; in rock, it’s unflinch­ing actual­ism.

Relat­ed con­tent:

The Ori­gins of Spinal Faucet: Watch the 20 Minute Quick Movie Cre­at­ed to Pitch the Clas­sic Mock­u­males­tary

Ian Rub­bish (aka Fred Armisen) Inter­views the Conflict in Spinal Faucet-Impressed Mock­u­males­tary

The Spinal Faucet Stone­henge Deba­cle

Watch The 9 Lives of Ozzy Osbourne: A Free Doc­u­males­tary on the Heavy Met­al Pio­neer (RIP)

Primarily based in Seoul, Col­in Marshall writes and broad­casts on cities, lan­guage, and cul­ture. His initiatives embrace the Sub­stack newslet­ter Books on Cities and the e-book The State­much less Metropolis: a Stroll via Twenty first-Cen­tu­ry Los Ange­les. Fol­low him on the social web­work for­mer­ly generally known as Twit­ter at @colinmarshall.