![]() ( School of Rock remains Linklater’s top-grossing film ever, with an inflation-adjusted global box office of $180 million.) At the time, the actor was best known for his role as the record store know-it-all from High Fidelity, while director Richard Linklater had earned indie fame for Dazed and Confused, Waking Life, and Before Sunset. ![]() The movie’s enduring appeal has a bit to do with this unorthodox collusion of talent, including an endearing cast of kid musicians. It’s also due to a storyline centered on the heartwarming trope of an adult goofball who finds meaning in teaching children. The film exceeded initial box office projections-and went on to become a Broadway show and a Nickelodeon television series-because of its sophisticated performances and unfettered humor. It revived the idea that a movie made for families should be just as emotionally layered, well-acted, and hilarious as a film for adults. In honor of its anniversary, Viacom spoke to some of the stars, creators, and production executives who were part of the process. Mike White, writer and actor: Jack was my next-door neighbor for a few years. He was starting to get a lot of heat as an actor and he would occasionally give me scripts that had been submitted to him to star in. They were invariably these flat comedies or he was like the John Belushi guy who gets drunk and falls through a sliding glass door or something. I'm reading these scripts and I was like, ‘I could do better than this.’ Obviously, music is a big passion of his he has his band Tenacious D. I had the idea of him leading a band of little kids-somehow it just seemed like a funny visual. Then I got the idea that it would be fun to have him be more of a W.C. Fields a little bit, like a guy who isn't really somebody you'd want around kids, but that's part of the fun of it. Richard Linklater, director (from an interview for Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny): Here’s a script, Jack Black's attached, what do you think? I’m like ‘ehh, I don’t know how to do this. I pass.’ I got a call that was like ‘Scott Rudin, the producer, isn’t accepting your pass’ and I’m like ‘what does that mean?’ … He was just sure I was the right guy to pull this off … It was a huge, different thing for me to come aboard. ![]() I was a color on his palette, someone had cast me as the right person to perhaps realize this thing that he thought had potential. Ilene Starger, casting director: I began casting in New York in 2002. We had an unusually long casting process of seven months. #SCHOOL OF ROCK SCRIPT BROADWAY PROFESSIONAL#Įveryone involved knew that finding the right young people, even if not professional actors, who also had musical gifts would require time, patience, and an intensive search. It didn’t matter if they had had prior acting experience in fact, we wanted the film to have a freshness, re: unknown talent where possible.īecca Brown, actress (Katie): I think I played 'Here Comes the Sun' by The Beatles and showed them I could play guitar. A couple weeks later, they called me in again and said, ‘Just come in and show us that you can rock out.’ I came in with these fake Limited Too hair extensions. My mom punked me out, had me in all black and I bought an electric guitar. I played a Lenny Kravitz song, rocked out, and I booked it.īrian Falduto, actor (Billy): I went in and did a boys' soprano rendition of 'Send in the Clowns' from A Little Night Music.
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