When you've already turned it up to 11, where do you go from there? It's a question that Rob Reiner, director of 80s rock mockumentary classic This
When you’ve already turned it up to 11, where do you go from there? It’s a question that Rob Reiner, director of 80s rock mockumentary classic This Is Spinal Tap, has had over four decades to consider. And the answer he’s come up with is, well, infinity — naturally. Yes, in a newly released teaser for the now officially titled Spinal Tap II: The End, Reiner and the band — Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) — crank the amps and get ready to rock you all over again. Listen! It’s like a Mozart symphony! Scroll! And watch the trailer below;
Okay, so when we say this is a teaser for Spinal Tap II, we really do mean it’s a teaser: all we actually get in this thirty second snippet is a series of knobs being twiddled, a burst of low-budget explosion FX, and the all-too-familiar strains of hair metal ditty ‘Stonehenge’. But what we also get is confirmation that American label Bleecker Street is planning to release the movie in theatres in September, and to bring back the OG Spinal Tap movie for a 41st anniversary encore this summer. How that rollout will look in the UK remains to be seen as ‘i’s and ‘t’s remain undotted and uncrossed at present on a distribution deal this side of the pond, but we’ve no doubt that there’s space for ‘one of the loudest bands in England’ to get the multiplex treatment they so richly deserve.
When Empire spoke to Rob Reiner about getting the band back together last year, the filmmaker candidly shared the genesis of the movie and its reunion plot. “It came from a very real place, which was that Tony Hendra, the actor who played Ian Faith, their manager in the movie, passed away,” Reiner shared with us at the time. “And in reality the guys — Harry, Chris and Michael — hadn’t played together as Tap for 15 years.” But now, with the picture in the can, the Marshall amped up, and the likes of Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, and Elton John all along for the ride, the mighty Tap are finally back — and ready to touch infinity. Rock on!
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