TORONTO — When news broke last year that a security guard had been shot outside Drake’s Toronto mansion, local TV crews rushed to the scene. So did Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol — but not to report on it.

The Canadian duo arrived with their own cameras rolling, ready to turn the real-life chaos into a scene for their new feature, “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.”

The comedy, which premièred at the Toronto Film Festival this week, is a revival of the cult web series “Nirvanna the Band the Show,” which thrived on meta gags and public stunts.

Johnson and McCarrol were shooting a scene for their film while appearing as guests on the local morning radio program "The Roz & Mocha Show" when they received word that a guard had been shot outside Drake’s residence.

“Because it was a radio

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