Spinal Faucet is getting the band again collectively. The principal solid and director of the peerless 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Faucet are reuniting for Spinal Faucet II, a sequel deliberate for launch by Fort Rock Leisure on March 19, 2024.
Deadline studies that Rob Reiner will return each as director behind-the-scenes and in character as faux filmmaker Marty DiBergi, as will Christopher Visitor (Nigel Tufnel), Michael McKean (David St. Hubbins) and Harry Shearer (Derek Smalls), who collectively comprise the core members of the fictional exhausting rock outfit.
Reiner advised Deadline the thought is predicated across the now-septuagenarian Spinal Faucet reforming to satisfy a contractual obligation with their late supervisor Ian Religion (Tony Hendra, who portrayed the character within the authentic movie, died final 12 months).
“Ian’s widow inherited a contract that stated Spinal Faucet owed them yet another live performance,” Reiner stated. “She was principally going to sue them in the event that they didn’t. All these years and a variety of unhealthy blood we’ll get into they usually’re thrown again collectively and compelled to take care of one another and play this live performance.”
Reiner added that the Spinal Faucet braintrust could launch a guide dubbed Faucet Moments chronicling Spinal Faucet-like misadventures that precise musicians have encountered over time. “Like within the film, they get stoned and might’t discover the stage, that occurred to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers,” he stated. “When Nigel is annoyed by the little bread within the catering that received’t maintain the chilly cuts, that final one was taken from a Rolling Stone article a couple of tour Van Halen had when, of their rider, they didn’t need brown M&Ms. We had an authentic keyboard participant, Jonathan Sinclair, who when he was with the band Uriah Heep, visited us and stated they’d been guide right into a navy base, and we put that in, too.”
This Is Spinal Faucet was deemed “culturally, traditionally and aesthetically important” by the Library of Congress in 2002. The movie is screening Might 18 as a part of the Cannes Movie Pageant’s Cinema de la Place sidebar.
Visitor, McKean and Shearer have often reprised their Spinal Faucet characters for TV specials and reside performances because the authentic film, and even launched a brand new album in 2009, Again From the Lifeless. Ric Parnell, who performed doomed Spinal Faucet drummer Mick Shrimpton, died Might 1 on the age of 70.
