The direct-to-Netflix movie “Mascots” is coming out in 2016, one decade after Christopher Guest’s last feature directorial effort “For Your Consideration” first turned up on cinema screens.
“Mascots” appears to be a mockumentary centering on competing sports-team mascots. Little else is known about it.
Guest, 67, got into the mockumentary game when he wrote and starred in Rob Reiner’s first feature, the 1984 heavy metal spoof “This is Spinal Tap.”
Twelve years later Guest made his mockumentary directorial debut with 1996’s “Waiting For Guffman,” and followed it with 2000’s “Best In Show,” 2003’s “A Mighty Wind” and 2006’s “For Your Consideration.”
In 2013 he adapted the mockumentary format into an 8-episode HBO sitcom “Family Tree,” which had nothing to do with show business.
A decade before he made “This Is Spinal Tap,” Guest served as a writer-performer alongside John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Brian-Doyle Murray, Michael O’Donoghue, Doug Kenney, Gilda Radner, and Harold Ramis on “The National Lampoon Radio Hour.” Like many of his Lampoom cohorts, he became a writer-performer on “Saturday Night Live.”
A former member of Britain’s House of Lords, Guest married actress Jamie Lee Curtis in 1984 and now appears to be morphing into Tommy Chong.
