‘Anvil!: The Story Of Anvil,’ a tale of hope and heavy metal, has been having quite the encore. The film, directed by Sacha Gervasi, has been re-released by Utopia for a new generation
“It’s chaotic magic,” Gervasi tells Deadline the morning after the LA premiere that included a live performance from the band.The film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, tells the story of Canadian metallers Anvil, who influenced the likes of Metallica and Guns N Roses but never quite got their dues.
Gervasi self-financed the film “about an unknown band and their struggles to make it in their 50s”. After he didn’t receive any substantial offers at Sundance, and a call from his accountant suggesting that he file for bankruptcy, he took out a second mortgage on his house to fund a theatrical release of the film.
He says that Anvil succeeded because the mainstream public had no idea who the band was. He tells a couple of amusing stories to illustrate the point. Firstly, at a film festival in Ireland, two young fans approached Reiner and said that because he shared a name with the director ofit wasn’t a real documentary. Reiner pulled out his passport to prove it was his real name and they said, “You Hollywood people can get any props you need”.
“We were all astonished to see that 17-year old kids were responding in such a visceral way to the film. [Rio] said ‘We’ve just come out of Covid, we’ve been locked down for a couple of years and we’ve not been able to socialize,” he says. “When I was 15/16, I was on the road with Anvil and those years are so critical. They had been denied that so they responded to the hopeful, inspirational aspect of the film. On another level, it’s a very sad film.
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