Spinal Tap Members Recall 'Bewildered' Reaction When Pitching Original

Fourty one years after This Is Spinal Tap , the band is back together.

The parody rock band made up of Christopher Guest’s Nigel Tufnel, Michael McKean’s David St. Hubbins and Harry Shearer’s Derek Smalls has reunited for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues , which sees Rob Reiner’s Marty DiBergi directing a new documentary about the band’s final show.

Reiner , who also serves as the film’s actual director, said he’s been asked for years to do a sequel , as “initially no one understood the film but over the years it grew.” But for many years doing a follow-up wasn’t an option as the foursome didn’t have control of the project’s rights — until Shearer filed a suit in 2016 to try to regain the rights “because we never made any money,” Reiner explained. “After all of those years wit