Chad Smith and Lars Uhlrich will appear in the sequel to “This Is Spinal Tap”.

Two rockers turn it up to 11! red hot chili peppers drummer Chad Smith and Metallica Drummer Lars Ulrich to Make a Cameo in Upcoming Sequel to 1984 Cult Classic Spoof This is the spine.

According Deadline, Fran Drescher will also reprise her role as journalist Bobbi Flekman. The cast will also include Don Lake, John Michael Higgins, Jason Acuña, Nina Conti, Griffin Matthews, Kerry Godliman, Chris Addison, Brad Williams and Paul Shaffer — though their roles, aside from Smith and Ulrich, have not been cast yet. confirmed.

Production on the Rob Reiner directorial is underway with original stars/writers Christopher Guest (Nigel Tufnel), Michael McKean (David St. Hubbins) and Harry Shearer (Derek Smalls) reprising their roles as the ill-fated metal band that once lost a drummer in a “freak garden accident”.

The original film — in which most of the dialogue was improvised — follows the rockers on a 1982 US tour to promote Smell the glove album. Although the film had a modest box office at the time, it has since become a cult must-see, even on the Library of Congress' list of culturally significant objects.

Reiner is also set to return to the screen to reprise his role as documentarian Martin 'Marty' Di Bergi. In an interview with Deadline last year, the director hinted at a sequel. “I can tell you that hardly a day goes by without someone saying 'why don't you do another one?' Reiner said of the idea of ​​revisiting the film for its 40th anniversary. “For so many years we said, 'nah.' It wasn't until we came up with the right idea how to do this. You don't want to just do it, do it. You want to honor the first one and push it a little further with the story.”

Then Reiner said the second Puncture would follow the band after a long break. “They've played the Albert Hall, they've played Wembley Stadium, all over the country and in Europe,” Reiner said. “They haven't spent any time together recently, and that became the condition. The idea was that Ian Faith, who was their manager, had died. In fact, [actor] Tony Hendra is dead. Ian's widow inherited a contract that said Spinal Tap owed them one more gig. Basically he was going to sue them if they didn't. All these years and a lot of bad blood we're going to come in and they're going to come back together and they're going to have to deal with each other and play this concert.”