Cult favourite Heavy Journey, the 2018 Finnish movie that mixed a love of black and demise metallic with offbeat comedy, is unquestionably getting a long-awaited sequel. In line with Variety, Doppelgänger Releasing, an offshoot of Music Field Movies, has secured North American distribution rights for the sequel, aptly titled Heavier Journey, with Charades managing the world gross sales rights. Heavier Journey is slated for a theatrical and residential leisure launch this November.
The hilarious authentic movie – I nonetheless bear in mind crying with a lot laughter – gained a devoted following for its humorous but heartfelt portrayal of Impaled Rektum, an underground metallic band searching for to seek out their distinctive sound: a mixture of “symphonic, post-apocalyptic, reindeer-grinding, Christ-abusing, excessive struggle pagan, Fennoscandian metallic.”
The sequel picks up a couple of years after the occasions of Heavy Journey, the place Impaled Rektum is now behind bars. The band, unprepared for a suggestion to play on the prestigious Wacken Open Air pageant in Germany, declines the chance. However when the guitarist’s father falls unwell and faces dropping the household house and slaughterhouse, the band should rally collectively for a jailbreak and an opportunity at redemption. Cue the music: time to get out of jail!
Director-writers Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren expressed their enthusiasm for bringing this new chapter of Impaled Rektum‘s journey to life: “If there’s one factor the world wants, it is feel-good motion pictures about dudes who play symphonic post-apocalyptic reindeer-grinding Christ-abusing excessive struggle pagan Fennoscandic metallic. We’re so excited to convey ‘Heavier Journey’ to audiences in North America and make a number of noise with this sequel’s launch!”
In a private triumph for Laatio, the soundtrack for Heavier Journey consists of music by Mika Lammassaari (Mors Subita, ex-Everlasting Tears Of Sorrow, ex-Wolfheart) and an entire rating by the Swedish occult rock band 12 months of the Goat, fulfilling a long-time dream of the director: “This has been my 10-year plan, to collaborate with them one way or the other. I needed to make the primary movie in order that I had one thing to offer them: ‘Would you, would you be within the second movie?’ I have been an enormous, massive fan of them for a very long time, and this can be a private challenge in some ways for me. It fulfills lots of my fanboy desires.”
“It is a thrill to see ‘Heavier Journey’ being distributed within the U.S. Music Field Movies and Doppelgänger Releasing’s eclectic slate, spanning each demanding arthouse cinema and mainstream comedy, leaves little question about their potential to attract audiences to theaters. As a metallic fan myself, I could not be happier,” mentioned Charades CEO Pierre Mazars.
The sequel, funded by a various worldwide consortium together with nations like Finland, Germany, and Belgium, guarantees to be a “greater film” when it comes to manufacturing worth. Nonetheless, Laatio famous that the added funds didn’t stretch a lot additional resulting from inflation. Filming happened in Finland and on the iconic Wacken Open Air in Germany, with an epic mud bathtub scene featured prominently.
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