A Mysterious Weezer Film Is within the Works

When Weezer took the Coachella stage on Saturday afternoon, many followers within the crowd had been awaiting some form of replace on bassist Scott Shriner’s spouse, Jillian Lauren Shriner, who was shot by the Los Angels Police Division on her personal property final week and arrested for tried homicide. Unsurprisingly, the band made no reference to the incident, however they did verify rumors {that a} Weezer film is within the works.

“We’ve been busy making the Weezer film again in L.A. the final couple weeks,” Rivers Cuomo advised the group earlier than breaking out “Undone (The Sweater Tune). “However when Coachella referred to as us up, mentioned, ‘Hey Weezer, might you guys make it out for a shock look?,’ we’re like, ‘Heck yeah!’ It feels so good to be right here with you guys and set free these feelings.”

As Stereogum notes, phrase of a Weezer film has been circulating within the fan group for a number of weeks, and longtime band historian/archivist/unofficial fifth member Karl Koch lately invited fan membership members to a “personal filmed merchandise signing” for a “TBA video” in Los Angeles on April 21. “That is your likelihood to say howdy to the band and get one thing signed in an unique personal setting,” Koch wrote, “and hopefully be within the video besides!…Followers ought to deliver their very own merch for autographing. Observe that this may contain serval hours of ‘ready in line’ for the digicam crew’s wants.”

This makes it seem to be Weezer are capturing a conventional documentary about their historical past, and so they merely want B-roll of them interacting with followers. However when their Voyage To The Blue Album tour wrapped up in Los Angeles again in October 2024, actor Ben Schwartz requested the group to assist out with a film shoot.

“Now, there’s an enormous battle the place Weezer is combating these huge villains,” he mentioned. “And what’s going to occur now’s they’re going to comply with me, and I’m going to be combating in numerous areas. And I’m going to say, ‘Somebody throws a punch at somebody from Weezer,’ and also you’ll react to that. After which I say, ‘And Weezer kicks their butt!,’ and also you react to that.”

Judging by this, one thing far stranger than a regular doc is within the works. It looks as if some form of bizarre cross between The 1978 Kiss TV movie Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park, and the 2024 documentary/fiction Pavement film Pavements. However for the time being, we actually don’t have any clue what kind of film they’re making that entails a choreographed battle with “huge villains” and pictures of them assembly real-life followers.

Within the meantime, Shriner has develop into an unlikely TMZ determine on account of his spouse’s ongoing authorized scenario. He was very nonchalant when confronted with a digicam whereas strolling his canine a few days in the past. “She’s all proper,” he mentioned when requested for an replace on his spouse. “Thanks for asking.”

The incident happened April 8 when a hit-and-run suspect left his automobile on the 134 Freeway and ran close to Shriner’s property, with the LAPD in pursuit. In response to the police, Jillian Lauren Shriner stood in her yard with a handgun because the chaos erupted. They declare she pointed her gun at officers, ignored instructions to drop it, and fired the weapon. She was then shot by the LAPD, and charged with tried homicide.

She has but to come back ahead along with her model of occasions, and it’s unclear if there’s physique digicam footage of the incident.

Weezer, in the meantime, are persevering with to play reveals. They subsequent take the stage Might 3 on the Lovin’ Life Music Fest in Charlotte, North Carolina. They’ve a gradual calendar of pageant gigs in America and Europe all through the summer time and fall, wrapping up Oct. 19 at When We Had been Younger in Las Vegas.