45 years after The Blues Brothers debuted in theaters, Jake and Elwood are again with their first sequel in many years.
This one isn’t a film; it’s a brand new graphic novel titled The Blues Brothers: The Escape of Joliet Jake. Set 10 years after the occasions of the Blues Brothers film, it follows a seek for the band’s lead singer Jake, the character performed within the movie by the late John Belushi.
In accordance with the press launch in regards to the comedian, in the brand new guide, “Joliet Jake has disappeared from jail … however has he dedicated the unthinkable jailbreak, or was he kidnapped? A brand new forged of characters at the moment are on their personal mission to seek out Jake and the legendary Briefcase Stuffed with Blues. Alongside the best way, they’ll be helped by acquainted faces, in addition to thwarted by enemies (Illinois Nazis will without end be a battle it appears), as they careen by means of Chicago leaving chaos and laughter of their wake.”
The opposite central member of the Blues Brothers, Dan Aykroyd (AKA Elwood Blues), supplied “editorial oversight” and a brand new foreword for the guide, which was written by Stella Aykroyd, Luke Pisano, and James Werner, with artwork by Felipe Sobriero.
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Belushi and Aykroyd first conceived the Blues Brothers characters when each had been forged members within the early years of Saturday Night time Reside. The 2 bonded over their mutual love of music, and after singing with blues bands off the present, they ultimately shaped their very own blues band full of nice musicians like Donald “Duck” Dunn and Matt “Guitar” Murphy to again them on SNL.
The Blues Brothers carried out on Saturday Night time Reside for the primary time in 1978, after which opened for comic Steve Martin. They recorded their performances and turned them into the stay album Briefcase Stuffed with Blues, which grow to be a platinum best-seller. The Blues Brothers movie, directed by John Landis, and written by Landis and Aykroyd, adopted in 1980. In it, Belushi’s Jake Blues is launched from jail and reunites together with his brother Elwood, after which the duo undertake a “mission from God” to save lots of the orphanage that raised them as kids by reuniting their outdated band and performing a charity gig to repay the house’s again taxes.
Right here was Dan Aykroyd’s assertion on the brand new guide:
On this fantastic type of printed creative expression we get to proceed the legend of Jake and Elwood and move it ahead in ways in which movie cannot. This graphic novel retains the spirit of The Blues Brothers alive; mischievous recidivists, musical outlaws who above all the pieces, care in regards to the Blues. The search for the Briefcase, stuffed with unearthed lyrics and music from the greats, is an honorable Grail. The Blues Brothers: The Escape of Joliet Jake is a passing of the legacy to the subsequent technology, echoing the true coronary heart of our unique story – preserving alive what shouldn’t be forgotten.
The Blues Brothers: The Escape of Joliet Jake is out there under.
