Weezer revealed that they’re making a new “mockumentary”-style movie about their band while playing Coachella this month, and now, frontman Rivers Cuomo has seemingly confirmed that Jack Black will star in the film.
According to a screenshot from Weezer’s Discord (via Reddit), Cuomo shared the news with an AI-generated film poster depicting Cuomo and Black together and featuring the full band underneath them: “Weezer, costarring Jack Black” it reads. Cuomo captioned the post itself “nope, it’s real,” assumedly confirming that Black will appear in the film. The connection between Black and the group goes back decades, as Weezer and Black’s band Tenacious D toured together in 2001, and Black’s wife Tanya Haden played cello on Weezer’s 2003 cover of Green Day’s “Worry Rock.”
Black joins a cast that also reportedly includes Keanu Reeves as the film’s villain, plus Juliette Lewis, Eric Andre, Johnny Knoxville, Ben Schwartz, and the four members of Weezer. It’s been described as a “mockumentary” in the vein of Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (with a touch of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) that will dramatize the fictional “rivalry” between Weezer and Reeves’ band Dogstar.
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