Rob Reiner, spouse Michele Singer Reiner and their three youngsters appeared all smiles on the premiere of Spinal Faucet II: The Finish Continues, simply three months earlier than Rob and Michele’s deaths.
The acclaimed director was supported by his household — together with the couple’s three children, Jake, Nick and Romy — on September 9 on the Los Angeles premiere of the long-awaited This Is Spinal Faucet sequel on the Egyptian Theatre.
In footage from the occasion, Rob, clad in a black blazer and a Spinal Faucet shirt, was seen posing on the pink carpet alongside spouse Michele, sons Jake and Nick, 32, and daughter Romy. Additionally noticed was Maria Gilfillan, who seems to be Jake’s companion. All the household was decked out in black, matching the filmmaker. (Rob additionally has an adoptive daughter, Tracy, whom he shared together with his first spouse, Penny Marshall.)
The completely happy event marked 41 years because the first Spinal Faucet film hit theaters in 1984.
The Spinal Faucet mockumentaries comply with a fictional rock group composed of Nigel Tufnell (performed by Christopher Visitor), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer). Rob additionally seems within the films as documentarian Martin “Marty” DiBergi.
This Is Spinal Faucet turned a cult basic, however Rob averted a sequel for a few years.
“We by no means deliberate to do a sequel ever,” Rob instructed Selection in July 2025. “For years, individuals would say, ‘It’s a must to make a sequel!’ and we all the time mentioned, ‘Nah, nah, we’ve executed it — let it’s.’”
After Shearer sued the license house owners of the unique movie and received the rights again, the celebs started considering a sequel.
“At first, we thought no, the bar is simply too excessive. However then we met a few instances and an concept began to percolate, and it got here from a really pure place: The truth that [the Spinal Tap band members] hadn’t performed with one another for 15 years, that turned a narrative level, and the truth that [actor] Tony Hendra, who performed their supervisor Ian Religion, had handed away,” Rob mentioned. “We mentioned, nicely, what if their supervisor’s daughter inherited a contract that requires yet one more live performance?”
He added, “That didn’t appear precious at first as a result of they hadn’t performed in 15 years — however we remembered that Kate Bush had a tune that was on Stranger Issues, and abruptly there was a reemergence of that tune and her. Effectively, what if a well-known musician or somebody begins screwing round with a Spinal Faucet tune, someone catches it on an iPhone and places it up on TikTok, it goes viral, and abruptly they develop into related once more? So with all of these issues collectively, we got here up with this concept.”
Spinal Faucet II: The Finish Continues was launched by Bleecker Road on September 12, simply over three months earlier than Rob and his spouse have been discovered useless inside their Brentwood, Los Angeles residence on Sunday, December 14.
Hollywood is mourning the lack of acclaimed director Rob Reiner and his spouse, Michele Singer Reiner. The couple have been discovered useless inside their residence in Brentwood, Los Angeles, on Sunday, December 14, with TMZ reporting that Rob, 78, and Michele “suffered lacerations per a knife.” Rob and Michele’s household broke their silence late Sunday […]
TMZ reported on Sunday that Rob, 78, and Michele “suffered lacerations per a knife.”
“It’s with profound sorrow that we announce the tragic passing of Michele and Rob Reiner,” a spokesperson for the Reiner household mentioned in a press release to Selection. “We’re heartbroken by this sudden loss, and we ask for privateness throughout this unbelievably tough time.”
