Spinal Tap 2 With Original Cast & Director Happening In Shock Announcement
Spinal Tap 2 is finally happening, with the original movie's stars and director all returning. Rob Reiner was the mastermind behind the camera of 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap, a mockumentary about a truly pretentious fake English rock band. Besides being a hilarious look behind-the-scenes at the rock star life, the movie's form also proved highly influential, setting the template for the whole mockumentary sub-genre.
Reiner of course would go on to have a huge career as a Hollywood director with non-mockumentary films like Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally…, Misery and A Few Good Men. Spinal Tap star Chrisopher Guest meanwhile would pick up on the movie’s fake-documentary premise with his own later directorial efforts, making the form his own through movies like Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show and A Mighty Wind. And the band Spinal Tap itself lived on through various projects, including a pair of actual albums, a two-hour made-for-TV special called The Return of Spinal Tap and perhaps most famously a 1992 appearance on The Simpsons.
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Now after all this time Spinal Tap is finally ready for a full-on reunion via an official big screen This Is Spinal Tap sequel. As reported by Deadline, Spinal Tap II will feature the return of Reiner both behind the camera and on-screen as his documentary filmmaker character Marty DeBergi. The original Spinal Tap line-up will also be back: Guest as guitarist Nigel Tufnel, Michael McKean as singer David St. Hubbins and Harry Shearer as bassist Derek Smalls. There is no word yet on who will play Spinal Tap’s new drummer but no doubt they will be in for a short stint that ends in a bizarre and deadly way. Speaking
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