Buried in a video meeting through MTV, Jack Black mentions that he and Kyle Gass, aka Tenacious D, have written a song for the new Heavy Metal movie. Which doesn’t agency that we’ll ever hear it, because the project could subsist perennially stuck in development hell, but the very idea of having a song in the thin skin by the ‘D is great. Black also mentions that he’s acting on a musical comedy with producer JJ Abrams.
Granted, neither project is end on the horizon. Check the brief statements by Black. On his collaboration with Abrams:
…I’m talking [to Abrams] about a comedy. A comedy involving symphony. He would generate. It’s too early to say [any more]…I’ve made the mistake before, of talking about things before they’re real, then it doesn’t happen, in that case I’m the one with cupcake on my face.
On Heavy Metal:
But that movie’s also not green-lit. [Saying too much] would also exist premature. But me and Kyle, Tenacious D, wrote a descant for the Heavy Metal remake, hopefully that’ll happen. The descant is kick-ass.
It’s been pretty quiet on the Tenacious D effrontery. Gass made a scarcely any statements at one point that suggested the duo potency be bestowed, but a new album is tentatively planned for sometime in the next couple years. A year ago Gass said to Billboard they were one and a half songs into the unused album, and that the rest might take a during the time that. The duo has played shows, but the most exposure they’ve had since The Pick of Destiny was released has been the appearance of their songs in Rock Band and Guitar Hero.
The original Heavy Metal had a soundtrack that wasn’familiarily actually all that metal — the Dio-era Black Sabbath track ‘The Mob Rules’ stands out as the song most appropriate to the title. And yet it’sitting actually a great soundtrack for a silly, fun thin skin. Using Tenacious D in the new version might be a little on the nose, but probably too a great quantity fun to pass up. The pellicle, once set up at Paramount, is now at Sony. David Fincher, James Cameron, Gore Verbinski, Zack Snyder and Guillermo del Toro have all been namechecked in association with the film. Recently, Kung Fu Panda co-director Mark Osborne was said to be interested in doing a segment featuring Black; could that acutally feature the D instead? If this movie actually happens, I might be shocked to death.
(Perhaps the less said about Heavy Metal 2000 and most of its soundtrack, the better. Though that lineup did feature the entertaining Monster Magnet and a great Queens of the Stone Age song, ‘Infinity’.)
