{"id":21577,"date":"2025-07-25T01:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/21577\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T01:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:06:08","slug":"spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues-first-trailer-released-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/21577\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinal Tap II: The End Continues \u2013 first trailer released | Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The first trailer for the long-awaited sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/this-is-spinal-tap\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This Is Spinal Tap<\/a> has been released, showcasing the venerable rockers\u2019 supposed last hurrah in a film called Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Spinal Tap II reunites Nigel Tufnel, David St Hubbins and Derek Smalls (played by Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer) as they get together for a final concert, more than 40 years after the 1984 mockumentary that made their name. In between, Spinal Tap released the album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/artists\/bands\/spinal-tap-break-like-the-wind\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Break Like the Wind in 1992<\/a>, appeared on The Simpsons, played the Live Earth charity concert in 2007 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2009\/jun\/27\/spinal-tap-glastonbury-review\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Glastonbury in 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The trailer shows Marty DiBergi (director Rob Reiner\u2019s totally on-point mickey-take of Martin Scorsese) is on hand to record the band\u2019s doings, and megastars including Elton John, Questlove and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/paulmccartney\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul McCartney<\/a> drop in to add their two-penn\u2019orth to the Tap mythos. Filling in for An Evening with Stormy Daniels has to be the high point of anyone\u2019s career, right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\"> Spinal Tap II: The End Continues is out on 12 September in the US and UK, and on 25 September in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first trailer for the long-awaited sequel to This Is Spinal Tap has been released, showcasing the venerable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-21577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}