Film + TV

Flight of the Conchords fly again

by Jesse Locke

It’s been a few years since the world has heard from “the almost award-winning fourth-most-popular folk duo in New Zealand,” so we can blame their manager Murray. Yet if Flight of the Conchords fans thought this was the final “au revoir”, fear not! Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement are currently plotting their triumphant return.

In a recent interview with Consequence of Sound to promote his role in the film People Places Things, Clement delivered some new info on the duo’s North American comeback tour.

“We were planning on doing it this summer, but then I ended up doing The BFG instead,” he explained, nodding to his part in Steven Spielberg’s big screen adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 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.”

Another interview with film website Indiewire offered up some crumbs on the Conchords movie, expanding on the concept of a long-rumoured stage musical. Of course, it’s still in the embryonic stage at this point.

“We actually have started writing one,” said Clement. “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.”

Our money’s on the third “this”, if that’s what you’re into.