'Spinal Tap II: The End Continues' director Rob Reiner discusses his work behind the scenes of the 'This is Spinal Tap' sequel 41 years in the making.
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The guests for Monday, September 8 included Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi , and musical guest Spinal Tap. SPINAL TAP , and director Rob Reiner couldn’t be any more thrilled.which was released in 1984, went on to define the mockumentary genres as documentarian Marty DiBergi went on to chronicle the mishaps of a British hard rock band led by guitarist Nigel Tufnel , guitarist David St. Hubbins and bassist Derek Smalls .through new albums, live concerts, TV specials, short films and different iterations of the musical talent C. J. Vanston, Harry Shearer, Valerie Franco, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Fran Drescher and Rob Reiner attend the premiere of "Spinal Tap II: The End Continues" at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on September 09, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. finds the band in ruins after a nasty breakup 15 years earlier. Nigel runs a guitar and cheese shop in a quaint village outside of London and Derek runs a glue museum in London. David, meanwhile, is far across the pond in the U.S., where he composes music for murder podcasts in a studio in Morro Bay, Calif. While Spinal Tap’s manager, Ian Faith , has passed away, his daughter, Hope , discovers that the seemingly worthless paperwork he left her contains a contractual obligation for the band to play one last concert.As such, Marti gets his cameras rolling as he attempts to get the band back together for the show, which is set for New Orleans. Like before, though, the hapless members of Spinal Tap just can’t seem to get out of their own way.cast members Fran Drescher, Paul Schaffer and June Chadwick in cameo appearances as Bobbi Flekman, Artie Fufkin and Jeanine Pettibone, while the likes of John Michael Higgins, Don Lake, CJ Vanston, Valerie Franco and Chris Addison join the cast for the sequel.Thanks to pre-release publicity and the release of the film’s trailers, word came out relatively early that cameos from several prominent musicians would be featured inAmong them are famous drummers Questlove, Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Lars Ulrich of Metallica, as Spinal Tap hopes to coax one of them to play the drum kit in their concert because their previous 11 drummers all suffered from mysterious deaths.“I was conscious of that because you don't want a movie to be just loaded with celebrity cameos, like it’s stunt casting or something,” Reiner explained. “If you're gonna have a famous person in there, they better be there for an integrated reason. So, when it's Paul McCartney or Elton John or Garth Brooks, they have to be worked into the story in a way that serves the story.” While Reiner has had overwhelming success over the years working with some of the best actors in the business in such classics as , he still gets “pinch me” moments and having John and McCartney provided him with more of those surreal feelings. Amping up those feelings was the opportunity to film John and McCartney perform some of Spinal Tap’s songs with the band for“To work with these people that you've admired and looked up to for all these years — I mean, I couldn't have been a bigger fan of the Beatles and I couldn't have been a bigger fan of Elton John's work — so it was a thrill.”“When you meet them — and I've met both of them before a couple of times — they're the nicest people in the world,” Reiner said, smiling. “Paul McCartney is the most down-to-earth person I've ever met, not just in rock or movies or whatever, just as a person. He’s a great guy.”A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever: A Story of Spinal Tap, where Marty DiBergi interviews Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls.features a transcription from a real interview Marty does with the band in the recording studio, which in turn was transcribed. “It's exactly how we work all the time, as it’s completely improvised,” Reiner said. “We have our history, we know our history and can draw on it, but all the dialogue is improvised.”
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