Judd Apatow’s new documentary about Mel Brooks features never-before-seen footage of the slain director.
One month after Rob Reiner was killed in his home at the age of 78, the director will appear in a series of heartfelt interviews to share stories about his late father’s lifelong friendship with comedian and director Mel Brooks.
, Reiner appears several times to speak about the comedian’s 70-year friendship with his father, fellow comedian Carl Reiner. Director David Lynch also appears in posthumous interviews throughout the two-part documentary, debuting on HBO Max on January 22.Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Gettyanddirector was the first person to see his father after he collapsed in his home at age 98 in June of 2020. “My dad died right after that,” Reiner adds. Brooks, 99, details the incident, noting he spent over an hour begging paramedics to keep administering life-saving aid to his best friend. “I just didn’t want him to go. I wouldn’t accept it. I loved him so much,” Carl Reiner’s frequent collaborator recalls. Reiner states that Brooks came by his family home for “months and months and months” afterwards to watch TV and eat dinner—a ritual Brooks and Carl Reiner shared for decades, captured in a 2012 episode of Jerry Seinfeld’sRob Reiner met Mel Brooks when he was just five years old.“He was that close to my dad where he wanted to be close to him even when my dad was gone,” theand were propelled to comedy stardom with their beloved sketchin which Carl Reiner’s straight man interviewer lobbed questions at Brooks’s from-another-era caveman. The act turned into several comedy albums, eventually winning a Grammy in 1998. “My father was like a second banana; he never felt like he needed to be the star,” Rob Reiner says in the film. “He would push Mel into a corner, and that would make Mel explode with creativity and humor.” Carl Reiner served as a lifelong father figure to Mel Brooks after the comedian lost his father at a young age.“I always thought that, even though Mel was only like four years younger than my dad, he looked to my dad as a father figure,” Reiner says.“I was always searching for some guidance from an older man. And Carl was nice and tall. I literally looked up to Carl,” Brooks jokes. “And Carl, for all his schtick and insanity, was wise and loving. I just said, ‘That’s my father,’ I felt that Carl was there. I was very close to him.”Mel Brooks/HBO Reiner, who was killed in his sleep in December alongside his 70-year-old wife, Michele Singer Reiner, recorded the interviews in May 2024, according tostands trialIn another touching scene from the film, Brooks and the two Reiners recite the story of Rob’s first time meeting Brooks in unison. and co-director Michael Bonfiglio edit between interviews with the three comedians as they tell the story together, finishing each other’s sentences.Mathieu Bitton/HBO “I met Mel when I was four or five,” Rob Reiner says, conjuring up the moment. His father had invited Brooks over for the weekend and told Reiner that “a man” would be coming by.“To me, that’s who Mel was,” Reiner recalls with glee. “He was the man.”
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