Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl sat down with Classic Rock to discuss his horror movie ‘Studio 666,’ and revealed how he convinced the singer Lionel Richie to play.
In one of the unexpected moments in ‘Studio 666,’ Grohl confessed that he was completely unaware that Richie had been included in the film by the other writers. Grohl recalled the first day he met Richie and receiving a gift from him when he broke his leg:
“I met Lionel ages ago at a restaurant where he told me that he was a fan of the Foo Fighters and I wasn’t sure whether I should believe him or not. But then when I broke my leg, I had surgery in London and I had to stay in a hotel for two weeks in a wheelchair afterwards, people were sending get well cards and flowers and things like that. And f*cking Lionel Richie sent me a muffin basket because he was supposed to play Glastonbury with us. We had to cancel Glastonbury and he was supposed to play that show with us and we were looking forward to seeing each other. I call him the muffin man ever since.”
After receiving the gift from the musician, Grohl convinced him to play in his movie, which he ‘easily’ accepted:
“He was written into the script by the screenwriters without them knowing that we’re friends, so when I read the script, I’m like, ‘Oh, f*ck, this is hilarious, I know that guy’. I texted him and said, ‘Hey, do you want to be in a horror film?’ And he said, ‘Absolutely, brother’. That was it.”
How Grohl Decided To Make A Horror Movie
Growing up watching horror movies, in 2022, the rocker decided he might as well make a horror movie himself too. As a result, he wrote the script, made his bandmates play in the movie, and ultimately released it under the title ‘Studio 666.’ But, Foo Fighters in a horror movie? If you’re wondering how it all happened, Grohl explained it earlier in an interview:
“We moved into this house to record the new record [2021’s Medicine At Midnight]. It was a big creepy old Hollywood house. I thought, ‘Wait. We have a house already. Let’s make the record, take a couple of weeks off, and film a really low budget, quick little slasher film.’ I came up with the idea that Foo Fighters move into our house, the house is haunted, I become possessed, I kill the entire band, and then I go solo.”
Despite growing up with horror movies, the frontman thinks the movie is a cliché:
“The movie is one big cliché. A band wants to make a record, the manager needs the money, you’re sick of using the studio so you got to some destination to record, it turns out to be haunted, the singer gets possessed, murders everyone over creative differences, and then goes solo. Other than the murdering, that is a cliché of rock’n’roll for the past 70 fucking years.”
Although the rocker convinced Richie to play in the movie, it was only a short scene he had. You can watch it below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UiW86-rCSc
