Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)

Timing: 1:33 (93 min)

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Photo 19

Actors and characters

Release date

2006-11-22

Country

United States

Production

New Line Cinema, Red Hour

Genre

Comedy, Music

Budget

$20 000 000

Revenue

$13 426 450

Website

http://www.tenaciousdmovie.com/

Director

Liam Lynch

Actors

Jack Black, Kyle Gass, JR Reed, Ronnie James Dio, Paul F. Tompkins, Troy Gentile, Ned Bellamy, Fred Armisen, Kirk Ward, Amy Poehler
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Scenario

Jack Black, Kyle Gass

Producer

Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Stuart Cornfeld, Georgia Kacandes, Ben Stiller, Cale Boyter, Toby Emmerich, Richard Brener

Operator

Robert Brinkmann

Composer

John King

Artist

Audition

Jeanne McCarthy, Juel Bestrop

Editing

David Rennie, Ralph Bertelle
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• Upon entering the music store at the beginning of the search for "The Satanic Mediator", KG is wearing a t-shirt with a poster of the band "Trainwreck". Notably, Kyle Gass (who played KG) is the vocalist and guitarist of this band under the pseudonym Klip Calhoun.
• It took 7 hours to apply makeup to Dave Grohl to transform him into the Devil.
• The word "fuck" and its variations are used 106 times throughout the film.
• When entering the music store at the beginning of the search for "The Satan's Mediator," KG is wearing a t-shirt with a poster of the band "Trainwreck." Notably, Kyle Gass (who plays KG) is the vocalist and guitarist for this band under the pseudonym Klip Calhoun.
• Prior to this film, Meat Loaf (1947-2022) hadn't sung in a movie since Jim Sharman's science fiction musical *The Rocky Horror Picture Show* (1975), as he wanted to be perceived as an actor. He was even initially hesitant to participate in *Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny* as Jack Black's father, but ultimately agreed.
• According to Jack Black, he vowed to never write another screenplay, having lost confidence after the film flopped at the box office.
• Satan plays a guitar made by “Dean Guitars,” which was gifted to Dimebag Darrell (1966-2004) of “Pantera” when sales of their seventh studio album *Far Beyond Driven* (1994) exceeded 100,000 copies.
• It took 7 hours to apply Dave Grohl's makeup for his role as the Devil.
• Upon entering the music store at the beginning of his search for "The Satanic Picker," KG is wearing a t-shirt with a poster of the band "Trainwreck." Notably, Kyle Gass (who plays KG) is the vocalist and guitarist in this band under the pseudonym Klip Calhoun.
• Prior to this film, Meat Loaf (1947-2022) hadn't sung in films since Jim Sharman’s fantasy musical "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975), as he wanted to be perceived as an actor. He was even initially hesitant to participate in "Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny" as Jack Black’s father, but ultimately agreed.