Rivers Cuomo Publicizes Jack Black’s Addition to Weezer Film

The Weezer film has added extra star energy into the combo, with actor and musician Jack Black reportedly becoming a member of the forged.

Information of Black’s involvement within the forthcoming movie was confirmed by Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo himself, who took to the band’s Discord server to share an AI-generated picture of a movie poster that includes Black. Cuomo clearly anticipated backlash and disbelief, nevertheless, captioning his picture by stating, “Nope, it’s actual.”

Black’s look isn’t completely surprising, after all. Black beforehand toured with Weezer in 2001 as a member of Tenacious D, whereas spouse Tanya Haden was the cellist on Weezer’s cowl of Inexperienced Day’s “Fear Rock” in 2003.

Information of Weezer’s movie was formally confirmed earlier this month through the band’s look at Coachella, with Cuomo revealing the band had been engaged on it in Los Angeles within the previous weeks.

A report from leisure journalist Jeff Sneider claimed that the movie is one thing of a mockumentary in the identical vein as Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Bizarre: The Al Yankovic Story. Reportedly directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman of the Paranormal Exercise sequence, names resembling Eric Andre, Johnny Knoxville, Juliette Lewis and Ben Schwartz have all been listed as a part of the forged.

Sneider additionally reported that Keanu Reeves has been forged as a villain within the movie. Very like their affiliation with Black, Weezer and Reeves have a decades-long relationship, extending to the band’s first public efficiency in 1992 which noticed them opening for Reeves’ personal rock outfit Dogstar.

Whereas few particulars have been formally launched by Weezer themselves, it makes them the third Californian band to be the main target of an off-kilter movie venture in recent times. Whereas Stockton’s Pavement are set to be the main target of the genre-defying Pavements from director Alex Ross Perry, Rodeo trio Inexperienced Day are within the technique of filming New Years Rev, which is impressed by the group and their years of dwelling in a tour van.