Blues Brothers 2000

Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)

The Blues are back.

Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's hospital. Hitting the road to re-unite the band and win the big prize at the New Orleans Battle of the Bands, Elwood is pursued cross-country by the cops.

Date of release
1998-02-06
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (764)
Runtime
2h 3m
Genres
Comedy, Music
Director
John Landis
Collection
The Blues Brothers Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Chicago

Blues Brothers 2000 is a 1998 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis from a screenplay written by Landis and Dan Aykroyd, both of whom were also producers, and starring Aykroyd and John Goodman. The film serves as a sequel to the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. It also includes cameo appearances by various musicians.

Production

Shortly before John Belushi's death, a sequel to The Blues Brothers had been considered. John Landis revealed in an interview:"We'd always intended for a sequel with John, but of course when he passed away, it was obvious we weren't going to do it.

The film made it into the Guinness Book of Records for the biggest car pile-up, a record previously held by the original film. 63 cars were used in the scene after Elwood J. Blues (Dan Aykroyd) says to the band, "Don't look back." Inevitably, everyone looks back and sees the massive pile-up. Portions of this scene were filmed in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The original title for the film in earlier drafts was The Blues Brothers Meet The Voodoo Queen.

The film was originally intended to include Brother Zee Blues (Jim Belushi). But due to an already existing television deal where Belushi had been cast in the ABC drama Total Security, he was unable to appear and the script was altered to include Cab Blues (Joe Morton). This character's full name was Cabel Chamberlain as an homage to Cab Calloway, who died four years prior to the film's release.

The Blues Brothers' original keyboardist, Paul Shaffer, had been committed to Gilda Radner's one-woman show on Broadway Gilda Live and was therefore unable to appear in the original film. He was replaced by actor-musician Murphy Dunne.

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