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Less than a day after the Beastie Boys dropped an excellent first single off their forthcoming LP, Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2, the official trailer for Adam “MCA” Yauch’s sequel to their classic 1986 video for “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)”, dubbed Fight For Your Right Revisited, has arrived. Catch a sneak peek of the epic cast, which includes Will Ferrell (with cowbell), Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Seth Rogen, Jack Black, Jason Schwartzman, and many more, in action above. You can also pre-order their new album in a bundle that includes an HD download of the film here.
One promo still aside, the only info available so far on Adam “MCA” Yauch’s remake of the Beastie Boys’ 1986 “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)” video was the following intriguing description:
After the boys leave the party… Cast: Elijah Wood, Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Jack Black
While that teaser cast makes Fight For Your Right Revisited sound epic enough as is, it turns out that they’re just getting started: Hidden in plain view on IMDB since November is what appears to be the full cast list, which includes… drumroll please… Orlando Bloom, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Steve Buscemi, Ted Danson, Rainn Wilson, Will Arnett, Chloë Sevigny, and many more. Seriously, check out the full list here or below.
Hidden in Sundance’s recent announcement of short films to screen at the Park City, Utah film festival in January was one intriguing (and possibly hilarious) project: Fight For Your Right Revisited, a short written and directed by Beastie Boy Adam “MCA” Yauch, which, as Vulture points out, boasts the following description:
After the boys leave the party… Cast: Elijah Wood, Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Jack Black.
Elijah Wood may still be waiting around for his starring turn in an Iggy Pop biopic to come to fruition, but in the meantime, the former Frodo actor is taking a more active role in promoting The Apples in Stereo (beyond simply heading up their record label, Simian Records): Wood appears alongside the band’s frontman, Robert Schneider, in a new enjoyably insane promotional video for the Apples’ forthcoming seventh LP, Travellers in Space and Time.
Entitled “Exploring The Universe with Elijah Wood,” the pair explore the electromagnetic potential of fruit (Get it? Apples in… stereo. Yup.), among other clever allusions to the band and/or the band’s new record.
It’s cute, but I kind of enjoyed this Web 3.0.whatever way of dropping a new record a bit more. Either way, check out our favorite hobbit having some fun promoting an indie rock record here or below (via the Playlist):
If Elijah Wood can actually pull off playing Iggy Pop, just give him an Oscar, I say, because I honestly can’t see it happening. I do admire him for trying, but this isn’t Heath Ledger as the Joker territory (or even Hayden Christensen as Bob Dylan, etc). We’re talking about the Godfather of Punk here and even the man himself is opposed to the project. “They can wait for me to be dead,” Pop said in later March. “F*ck you, I won’t do your biopic promo.”
Though Wood is perhaps unfazed by Pop’s objections, he is not unafraid: “I think that the [Iggy Pop biopic] project will see the light of day,” Wood told Nylon. “I’m really excited about it, it just scares the sh*t out of me.”
Trust me, Frodo, we’re all a bit scared about this one.
Iggy Pop has put another nail in the coffin of the rumored biopic starring Elijah Wood as the living punk legend. Speaking at a press conference for his new album Préliminaires, Pop was asked, ”Is the biopic going on?”
“I don’t think so,” Pop replied. “I reacted bad. It opens with my mother and father worrying about me. My father was alive at the time and it felt like an intrusion. They can wait for me to be dead. F*ck you, I won’t do your biopic promo.”
Something tells me sending Frodo on a promo tour for a film about the Godfather of Punk would be a tough sell.