The beloved 2003 film helped launch the career of Disney star Miranda Cosgrove and was adapted into a Broadway and West End musical and even spawned TV spin-offs
One of the most beloved comedy movies ever is available to watch this weekend.
School of Rock came out in 2003 and followed struggling rocker Dewey Finn (played by comedy legend Jack Black). After being fired by his band, Dewey bluffs his way into being a substitute teacher at a prep school and ends up forming a new rock band with the students in his class, just in time for Battle of the Bands.
The movie helped shoot Miranda Cosgrove, who played straight-laced Summer Hathaway, into teen stardom. She had been playing Megan in Nickelodeon’s hit series Drake and Josh at the time and went on to star in iCarly, where she reportedly made $180,000 (£147,000) per episode – making her one of the highest-paid child actors on TV.
It also starred the likes of double Oscar-nominee Joan Cusack, who played the principal of Horace Green prep school who secretly loved rock music, and comedian Sarah Silverman. The movie has been adapted into a musical on Broadway and the West End and recently a TV series on Nickelodeon.
And if you’d like to re-live the rock and roll magic once again, it’s available to watch on Saturday (March 1) at 4.50pm over at Film4. It’s also currently available to stream on Paramount+ for those who simply can’t wait.
The cast famously reunited in 2013 to celebrate the film’s 10th anniversary – and it saw the cast quite literally get the band back together as they took to the stage and performed as the School of Rock band. They played several of the songs featured in the movie, including their cover of ACDC’s It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Black has said School of Rock is the “highlight” of his career. He told Entertainment Tonight: “My best memories are just that group of kids, and how funny and great they were. It’s definitely the highlight of my career, I can say that. Honestly.”
In 2016, he said he’d be up for doing a sequel to the classic comedy, but only if the original team were behind it. “I would love to do a School of Rock sequel. Or a Nacho Libre sequel,” he told Digital Spy.
“The thing is, I don’t want to do anything that doesn’t have the original creative team behind it, and it just so happens that I’ve worked with people who are real originals. And they don’t want to go back from whence they came, they want to go on to the next thing. I think that’s the true creative spirit – and it’s a not really a sequel one.”
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