An aspiring teen rock band shoots for heavy metal superstardom in the new trailer for Metal Lords. Set for a release on Netflix, the film comes from the producers of Game of Thrones and Harold & Kumar and is set to bow on April 8. Ahead of the streaming debut, you can watch the official trailer for Metal Lords to get a good sneak peek at the movie.
Metal Lords is directed by Peter Sollett and written by D.B. Weiss. Greg Shapiro and Weis produced with Tom Morello serving as executive music producer. The film stars Jaeden Martell, Isis Hainsworth, Adrian Greensmith, Sufe Bradshaw, Noah Urrea, Analesa Fisher, Michelle Fang, Phelan Davis, with Brett Gelman, and Joe Manganiello.
The synopsis for the film reads: "Two kids want to start a heavy metal band in a high school where exactly two kids care about heavy metal. Hunter (Adrian Greensmith) is a diehard metal fan —is there any other kind?— who knows his history and can shred. His dream in life is to win at the upcoming Battle of the Bands. He enlists his best friend Kevin (Jaeden Martell) to man the drums. But with schoolmates more interested in Bieber than Black Sabbath, finding a bassist is a struggle. Until Kevin overhears Emily (Isis Hainsworth) slaying on her cello. The motley crew must contend with school, parents, hormones and teen angst while trying to get along long enough for Skullf*cker to win the Battle of the Bands."
D.B. Weiss is Now Dealing With Something Much Different Than Dragons
D.B. Weiss came into this project under a lot of pressure after his work on the hit series Game of Thrones. This film marks his first big project with Netflix after signing a lucrative deal with the streamer. As a coming-of-age story about teenage rockers, it's a lot different than what Weiss had become accustomed to with crafting the story for something like the Thrones series. Notably, grounding this new story in reality was the biggest change.
"If you're dealing with reality, it's so much easier to get things wrong," says producer D.B. Weiss, who adapted Game of Thrones for HBO with David Benioff. "Nobody can really say, 'No one would ever have those shoes in Westeros,' because there is no Westeros. If something's not working, you can't say a giant visual-effects extravaganza is gonna come along in five minutes to wipe their memory of that scene. Those giant, horrible, wonderful artificial creations aren't there to save you."
He added, "The thing you had to believe that didn't totally make sense at the time was the kids who were heavily invested in rock music would be outliers to the extent that the kids are in this movie. What happened unintentionally in the intervening years was that part of the story started to make more and more sense and this kind of music drifted further and further from the mainstream." Hunter now feels like "a weird outlier dinosaur" to Weiss, but it speaks to his own long-held love for metal.
Metal Lords will premiere on Netflix on April 8, 2022.