{"id":52400,"date":"2025-08-07T16:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/52400\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T16:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:13:14","slug":"the-spinal-tap-sequel-arrives-next-month-watch-the-trailer-and-a-scene-with-elton-john-paul-mccartney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/52400\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spinal Tap Sequel Arrives Next Month: Watch the Trailer and a Scene with Elton John & Paul McCartney"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

This Is Spinal Tap came out more than 40 years ago. At the time, says direc\u00adtor Rob Rein\u00ader in a recent inter\u00adview at San Diego Com\u00adic-Con<\/a>, \u201cnobody got it. I mean, they thought I\u2019d made a movie about a real band that was\u00adn\u2019t very good, and why would\u00adn\u2019t I make a movie about the Bea\u00adt\u00adles or the Rolling Stones?\u201d Indeed, sto\u00adries cir\u00adcu\u00adlat\u00aded of peo\u00adple in the music indus\u00adtry (includ\u00ading the late Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>) not real\u00adiz\u00ading it was sup\u00adposed to be a com\u00ade\u00addy, so close was its satire to their actu\u00adal pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal lives. Even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly, \u201cthe real word start\u00aded creep\u00ading in\u201d: the fic\u00adtion\u00adal band \u201cplayed Glas\u00adton\u00adbury, they played Roy\u00adal Albert Hall and Wem\u00adb\u00adley Sta\u00addi\u00adum.\u201d Real-life rock and pop musi\u00adcians also became fans of the film. \u201cEvery time I see it,\u201d Rein\u00ader quotes Sting as say\u00ading, \u201cI don\u2019t know whether to laugh or cry.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bound\u00adaries between Spinal Tap\u2019s world and the real one have remained porous enough that the pro\u00adduc\u00adtion of the film\u2019s upcom\u00ading sequel Spinal Tap II: The End Con\u00adtin\u00adues <\/a>has involved a great many celebri\u00adties play\u00ading them\u00adselves, or at least ver\u00adsions there\u00adof.<\/p>\n

Take, for exam\u00adple, the new\u00adly released ver\u00adsion of \u201cStone\u00adhenge,\u201d whose music video<\/a> fea\u00adtures not just Elton John, but \u2014 to the delight of some fans, and per\u00adhaps the dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00adment of oth\u00aders \u2014 a cor\u00adrect\u00adly scaled stage prop. The song will be includ\u00aded on the album of The End Con\u00adtin\u00adues, sched\u00aduled for release along with the film on Sep\u00adtem\u00adber 12th, whose thir\u00adteen tracks bring in guest stars like Paul McCart\u00adney, Garth Brooks, and Trisha Year\u00adwood.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been about fif\u00adteen years since the last Spinal Tap album, a fac\u00adtor the sequel incor\u00adpo\u00adrates into its premise. \u201cWe cre\u00adat\u00aded this whole idea that there\u2019s bad blood, they\u2019re not speak\u00ading to each oth\u00ader,\u201d says Rein\u00ader, \u201cbut they now are forced togeth\u00ader because of a con\u00adtract\u201d dic\u00adtat\u00ading that they must give one last per\u00adfor\u00admance, a prospect sud\u00adden\u00adly made viable when their song \u201cBig Bot\u00adtom\u201d goes viral. As unrec\u00adog\u00adniz\u00adable as both pop cul\u00adture in gen\u00ader\u00adal and the music indus\u00adtry in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar have become over the past four decades, Rein\u00ader assures us that David St. Hub\u00adbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls \u201chave not grown emo\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly, musi\u00adcal\u00adly, or artis\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly. They are stuck in that heavy-met\u00adal world.\u201d In a Hol\u00adly\u00adwood movie, such a fla\u00adgrant lack of char\u00adac\u00adter devel\u00adop\u00adment would con\u00adsti\u00adtute a vio\u00adla\u00adtion of sto\u00adry\u00adtelling laws; in rock, it\u2019s unflinch\u00ading real\u00adism.<\/p>\n

Relat\u00aded con\u00adtent:<\/p>\n

The Ori\u00adgins of Spinal Tap: Watch the 20 Minute Short Film Cre\u00adat\u00aded to Pitch the Clas\u00adsic Mock\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary<\/a><\/p>\n

Ian Rub\u00adbish (aka Fred Armisen) Inter\u00adviews the Clash in Spinal Tap-Inspired Mock\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary<\/a><\/p>\n

The Spinal Tap Stone\u00adhenge Deba\u00adcle<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne: A Free Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on the Heavy Met\u00adal Pio\u00adneer (RIP)<\/a><\/p>\n

Based in Seoul,\u00a0Col\u00adin<\/a>\u00a0M<\/a>a<\/a>rshall<\/a>\u00a0writes and broad\u00adcasts on cities, lan\u00adguage, and cul\u00adture. His projects include the Sub\u00adstack newslet\u00adter\u00a0Books on Cities<\/a>\u00a0and the book\u00a0The State\u00adless City: a Walk through 21st-Cen\u00adtu\u00adry Los Ange\u00adles.\u00a0Fol\u00adlow him on the social net\u00adwork for\u00admer\u00adly known as Twit\u00adter at\u00a0@colinm<\/a>a<\/a>rshall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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