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\n Rob Reiner\u2019s final film was a sequel to his first, and his collaborators are now in mourning.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cSpinal Tap 2: The End Continues,\u201d released in September, was a follow-up to his first feature film \u2014 a largely improvised mockumentary about a fictional rock group known as \u201cone of England\u2019s loudest bands.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n This is unspeakable, the stuff of Greek tragedy.\n <\/p>\n
\n Harry Shearer, Spinal Tap co-star\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe was a great collaborator, and when the four of us proposed ideas for the films, he was the one who wrote them on 3×5 cards, and organized them into a movie,\u201d said Shearer, who co-wrote the Spinal Tap movies with Reiner and co-stars Michael McKean and Christopher Guest.\n <\/p>\n
\n Shearer, Reiner and co-stars Michael McKean and Christopher Guest were credited as co-writers on the Spinal Tap movies, which were mostly improvised. Their writing process involved the four of them sitting in a room bouncing ideas off each other, with Reiner taking notes on index cards, he told CNN\u2019s Brianna Keilar and Boris Sanchez.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI just have this memory of us sitting together making each other laugh all the time,\u201d Shearer said of their first collaboration.\n <\/p>\n
\n Shearer played bassist Derek Smalls, while Guest was co-lead singer and guitarist Nigel Tufnel, who frequently clashed with longtime bandmate David St. Hubbins, played by McKean.\n <\/p>\n
\n Reiner \u2014 who directed both films \u2014 also portrayed the fictional documentaries\u2019 director, Marty DiBergi.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe was, as they say in Hollywood, a mensch. A trustworthy and friendly and stable and reliable person that it was fun to be with,\u201d Shearer said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere will be plenty of time later to discuss the creative lives we shared,\u201d Guest said in a statement with his wife, Jamie Lee Curtis, \u201cand the great political and social impact they both had on the entertainment industry, early childhood development, the fight for gay marriage and their global care for a world in crisis.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe have lost great friends. Please give us time to grieve,\u201d they said.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Reiner\u2019s final film was a sequel to his first, and his collaborators are now in mourning. \u201cSpinal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-634717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115725750385063119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}