The sequel to “Heavy Journey”, the 2018 Finnish ensemble comedy about an aspiring steel band, has formally accomplished filming.

Earlier right now (Friday, September 15),Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren, who wrote and directed the unique movie, shared the next replace on the film’s Fb web page: “That is a wrap! Second a part of Heavy journey is now shot. And it was wonderful journey from starting to finish filled with bizarre moments.

“We had the privilege of working with the perfect folks within the trade from Lithuania, Finland and Germany.

“My deepest gratitude to everybody who put within the insane quantity of hours to make this occur.

“I am ready a lot to get the movie completed and on the market.
#heaviertrip”.

Again in June 2022, Laatio instructed Metallic Hammer journal that “Heavy Journey 2” was within the works. “We have written a extremely good script and we have been purported to movie it this summer time,” he mentioned. “We’re aiming to movie it subsequent 12 months. You by no means know. The final movie took six years, so I hope this one does not take so lengthy.”

“Heavy Journey” debuted in 2018 at SXSW and was proven in choose theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin and extra, along side VOD platforms. Helmed by first-time characteristic filmmakers, “Heavy Journey” is a satire in regards to the aforementioned steel band’s efforts to land its first reputable gig. Within the movie, Turo (Johannes Holopainen) is caught in a small village within the Finnish countryside the place his biggest ardour is being the lead vocalist for the group IMPALED REKTUM. The one drawback is that he and his fellow headbangers have practiced for 12 years with out enjoying a single gig. However that is all about to vary when the blokes meet the promoter of an enormous heavy steel music pageant in Norway and resolve it is now or by no means. Hitting the street in a stolen van with a corpse, a coffin, and a brand new drummer from a neighborhood psychological hospital in tow, IMPALED REKTUM travels throughout Scandinavia to make its desires a actuality. This street journey comedy features a musical brotherhood, grave robbing, Viking heaven, and an armed battle between Finland and Norway.

In line with Juuso, who’s a longtime steel fan, “Heavy Journey” initially bombed in Finland, which is extensively thought-about to be essentially the most heavy steel nation on this planet.

“No one went to see it within the Finnish cinemas,” Juuso mentioned, “It was marketed very poorly and to the fallacious viewers; it was marketed to 15-year-olds but it surely’s not a movie for them. They do not know the steel references they usually do not hearken to steel anyway. After the failed opening, it was just about, ‘Properly, there goes our profession. No one’s going to work with us once more.'”

Kai Nordberg and Kaarle Aho reportedly produced the unique “Heavy Journey” for Making Motion pictures on a funds of $3.6 million, financed by the Finnish Movie Basis, YLE and Movie Camp.

“Heavy Journey” at the moment has a 94% critic rating from 32 evaluations on Rotten Tomatoes, the net evaluation aggregation service that permits each critics and the general public to price motion pictures. The identical web site has an 83% viewers rating for “Heavy Journey” from greater than 250 evaluations.

“We have now the craziest followers in Japan,” Juuso mentioned. “They’ve cosplay over there and one man cosplayed because the velocity digital camera! And so they had particular screenings the place the music is turned up additional loud. There is a loopy ‘Heavy Journey’ scene over there.”