Game of Thrones creator Dan Weiss teams up with Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello on Metal Lords, a coming-of-age comedy for Netflix.
Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss are making a lot of new projects under their deal with Netflix: there’s the university drama The Chair with Sandra Oh, an adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Overstory, and an adaptation of Liu Cixin’s international sci-fi smash The Three-Body Problem, the most complicated of their efforts.
And now, they’ll also be producing a movie that may be the least complicated of their efforts: a coming-of-age comedy called Metal Lords, about “two kids want to start a heavy metal band in a high school where exactly two kids care about heavy metal.”
Per Entertainment Weekly, the movie will star Jaeden Martell (Knives Out), Isis Hainsworth (Emma) and newcomer Adrian Greensmith. Weiss is writing the movie, with Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist director Peter Sollett behind the camera.
That said, the most interesting credit may go to the movie’s executive music producer: Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello. This will be the musician’s first major Hollywood production credit. I guess if you’re making a movie about heavy metal, you go to someone in the business.
And clearly Weiss himself is a fan. Here he is in 2019 jamming out with Morello, Scott Ian of Anthrax, Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme, Brad Paisley, and Game Of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi, all of them working through the Game of Thrones theme song:
There’s no word on a release date for Metal Lords as of yet.
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