UPDATE, midnight, 9/4: Jermaine Clement tweeted a clarification that he, co-star Bret Mackenzie, and director James Bobbin are NOT working on a new Conchords project, but, in fact, they’re talking with HBO about other projects they might bring to HBO.
So, not necessarily more Conchords per se, but something Conchord-esque? I’ll still take it. Original article below the hashtags:
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While promoting his film “What We Do in the Shadows,” Jermaine Clement let it slip to the Guardian that HBO has comissioned four new episodes of the show, which last left Jermaine and Bret stranded back in New Zealand.
“Are the Conchords, dormant at the moment, waiting to erupt again? “We talk about a movie every so often,” says Clement. “Sometimes it feels like we lost a lot of impetus over the last couple of years. But Bret, James [Bobin, lead director] and me, we all want to do a musical. It would be good to do something all together … I miss playing Flight of the Conchords gigs.”
HBO have commissioned a new, four-episode comedy show from Clement and Waititi, he reveals. “It was supposed to be this year but then we decided to put What We Do in the Shadows out ourselves.”
This is huge news to fans of the show, who have been waiting years for a follow up to the first two seasons. In the meantime, they’ve just been doing things like, oh, you know, winning the Academy Award for writing music for the Muppet movies, a few acting jobs here and there. No big deal.
FYI, “What We Do in the Shadows” is a great little film, screened earlier this year at SXSW (where I saw it) and Sundance. It’s a mockumentary about urban vampires in Wellington, New Zealand and the problems they face with ex girlfriends, constant turf battles with local werewolves (one of whom was played by Rhys Darby, who played Murray the FotC manager). Hopefully we get to see it in broader release soon. (October? Just saying it would be a great time to release it.)
While it’s interesting HBO would only ask for four episodes, I will take anything I can get. Until then, Hiphopopatamus out. . .