Fans ofThis Is Spinal Tapare getting something especial for the moving-picture show ’s 40th anniversary in 2024 : A sequel .
According toDeadline , film director Rob Reiner is helm a subsequence that will play together original cast fellow member Christopher Guest , Harry Shearer , and Michael McKean in another “ mockumentary ” that will take intention at the medicine manufacture .
Reiner said the premiss will see Spinal Tap bandmembers David St. Hubbins ( McKean ) , Derek Smalls ( Shearer ) , and Nigel Tufnel ( Guest ) reunify following the death of their manager , whose widow woman inherit the band ’s contract which condition that they owe her one final concert . They have to gather to play or risk getting sue .
“ The plan is to do a subsequence that issue forth out on the 40th day of remembrance of the original film and I can tell you scarcely a day give-up the ghost by without someone say , ‘ Why do n’t you do another one ? ’ ” Reiner pronounce . “ For so many twelvemonth , we say , ‘ Nah . ’ It was n’t until we come up with the veracious idea how to do this . You do n’t want to just do it , to do it . You want to honor the first one and labor it a picayune further with the story . ”
The onscreen reunion wo n’t be smooth . “ All these years and a lot of bad blood line we ’ll get into and they ’re thrown back together and forced to deal with each other and play this concert , ” Reiner added . ( His character , director Marty DiBergi , will also reappear . )
This Is Spinal Taphelped giving birth the faux - documentary genre that was relatively obscure at the time , and some audience members believed they were seeing an literal band implode . ( Among those fooled : Ozzy Osbourne . ) It wo n’t be the original motion picture ’s first sequel : For 1992’sBreak Like the Windalbum , the cast burgeon forth new footage for a television system special .
You ’ll get anotherSpinal Tapon March 19 , 2024 .
[ h / tDeadline ]
