4 many years after its preliminary launch, the seminal and satirical rock mockumentary This Is Spinal Faucet is getting an honest-to-goodness sequel.

Thought-about by many to be one among (if not) the funniest rock and roll motion pictures of all time, This Is Spinal Faucet has lengthy been rumored to have a sequel within the works. But throughout a current look on the RHLSTP With Richard Herring podcast, director Rob Reiner mentioned issues are full-steam forward for a 2024 launch.

Included within the information is the truth that all the core members of Spinal Faucet — David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Visitor), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) — will return to their roles. Nevertheless, included within the forged checklist are some legit main musicians, together with Elton John, Garth Brooks, and Sir Paul McCartney.

For these holding rating, the Spinal Faucet sequel was initially hinted at throughout final yr’s Cannes Movie Competition. Apparently, the brand new film shall be akin to the basic Martin Scorsese flick The Final Waltz, which showcased the ultimate days of The Band earlier than finally having a significant falling out and calling it quits.

On the time, Reiner mentioned this in regards to the potential sequel:

“The plan is to do a sequel that comes out on the fortieth anniversary of the unique movie and I can let you know hardly a day goes by with out somebody saying, why don’t you do one other one? For therefore a few years, we mentioned, ‘nah.’ It wasn’t till we got here up with the proper concept how to do that. You don’t need to simply do it, to do it. You need to honor the primary one and push it a bit of additional with the story.

“They haven’t spent any time collectively not too long ago, and that grew to become the premise. The concept was that Ian Religion, who was their supervisor, he handed away. In actuality, Tony Hendra handed away. Ian’s widow inherited a contract that mentioned Spinal Faucet owed them another live performance. She was mainly going to sue them in the event that they didn’t. All these years and lots of dangerous blood we’ll get into and so they’re thrown again collectively and compelled to take care of one another and play this live performance.”

Whereas it’s arduous to 1 up the unique, it’ll be attention-grabbing to see what they do with Spinal Faucet 40 years after the actual fact. If there’s no point out of nu metallic or a few of the extra trendy shit within the film, I feel that’d be a little bit of a missed alternative. Who is aware of?