It’s been about a minute since we heard from our good friends from across the pond, Flight of the Conchords, but now it’s business time for New Zealand’s fourth most popular folk parody duo and they’ve got some big things in the works.
According to Consequence of Sound, one half of the Kiwi duo has all but confirmed the band’s impending return in a series of recent interviews. The band are apparently working on a film script and even a return tour for next year.
“We were planning on [touring] this summer, but then I ended up doing The BFG instead,” Jemaine Clement recently explained, referencing his role in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming adaptation of Rolad Dahl’s The Big Friendly Giant.
“So it’s my fault we didn’t do it this time. But we are hoping to announce a tour. We’ll announce it before the end of the year, hopefully, and then some time next year get on the road… after we get some new guitar strings and that sort of thing.”
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It had previously been reported that Clement and partner Bret McKenzie were working on new music, possibly in connection to a long-rumoured Flight of the Conchords musical. However, Clement recently told Indiewire that the two have started work on a full-fledged movie.
“We have actually started writing one,” he said. “Who knows if it will ever be made, we’ve written some notes for some different film ideas. We’re not down to the stage where we’re going, ‘The film is going to be like this’, it could be this, this, this, this, this.”
In the meantime, you can see Clement appear in James C Strouse’s forthcoming new film, People Places Things. The BFG, meanwhile, is set to hit theatres in July next year, which will see Clement starring alongside Bill Hader.
