Sacha Gervasi Gives Details Of Anvil’s Appearance In Green Hornet
Some thought the idea of Seth Rogen playingThe Green Hornetwas weird enough, and thenwe heard aboutMichel Gondry’s plans for timewarping action sequences. Then after that we heard that the band Anvil were being recruitedto play themselvesin the film and I think it was about then that the room really started spinning for a good handful of folk. Just what kind of film are they making here? What sort of tone will it have?
To those of you not sure how much more of this beautiful oddness you may take, grab onto something solid right now. Embedded below the break is a video ofAnvil! The Story of AnvildirectorSacha Gervasidiscussing just what the band get up to in their cameo.
I will leave the video, which comes courtesy ofMaking Of, to do the spoiling for me. It tells us when in the film the band appear, what happens to them and, most bizarrely, their reaction to this.
Doing a bit of digging, it seems that theLA Timescarried a tiny bit, though certainly not all, of this info back in October. They also reported that Anvil only filmed for one day – Wednesday October 7th – in the midst of their ongoing Oscar campaing.
In fact, the main thrust of theLA Timespiece was thatAnvil!is now something of a long-shot Oscar contender. The film was the first of this year’s Academy Awards screener discs to be sent out which appears to bode well for gongs if you consider that some of the previous films to get this honour includeLittle Miss Sunshine,JunebugandFrozen River.
There’s still a piece of me that doesn’t quite believe Anvil are real or that I’m missing something, a piece of the puzzle that will either let me in on the joke completely or stopThe Story of Anvilseeming like a borderline contender for faked-up mockumentary status.
