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In 2003, the writer Mike White collaborated with Jack Black and the director Richard Linklater to a musical comedy School of Rock that later spawned a Nickelodeon series and a Tony-nominated musical he composed Andrew Lloyd Webber.
IN original moviestruggling singer Dewey Finn (Black) goes undercover as a substitute teacher at a local prep school to earn some quick money to pay the rent. He pretends to be his best friend and former bandmate, Ned Schneebly (White), and discovers that all of his students have gifted musical talents. He teams up with the kids to form a band with the intention of competing in a Battle of the Bands competition to win prize money.
White originally wrote the script after living next door Black in Los Angeles who wants to show off his comedy chops.
“As an actor, he was starting to get a lot of heat and sometimes he would give me scripts that were submitted to him to act in,” White recalled. Viacom in October 2018. “It was always these flat comedies or he was, like John Belushi a guy who gets drunk and falls through a sliding glass door or something. I’m reading these scripts and I’m like, ‘I could do better than this.'”
The White lotus the creator continued, “Obviously, music is (Black’s) big passion; he has his band Tenacious D. I had this idea of him leading a band of little kids—it just kind of felt like a funny visual.”
Scroll below to find out what School of Rock the cast was as of the premiere of the film:
