Stillwater’s ‘Almost Famous’ Bus Was Also in Weird Disney Movie

Likelihood is you have seen Cameron Crowe’s 2000 movie Nearly Well-known, which follows the story of the fictional rock band Stillwater and their rise to fame in the course of the Nineteen Seventies. Effectively, the band’s tour bus is a little bit of a celeb itself, because it additionally appeared within the weirdest Disney film ever.

The Nation Bears, which got here out two years later.

As famous by Screen Crush, a overview of The Nation Bears in The New York Times in contrast the Disney movie to Nearly Well-known with “an excruciating dollop of Disney sentimentality combined in for good measure.” In the meantime, the movies coincidentally each featured the identical tour bus.

Nearly Well-known

The Nation Bears

The 2 motion pictures have greater than only a bus in widespread, although — they’re each about rock bands with a southern twang, although the latter’s musical group is actually (effectively, not actually actually) made up of bears.

Oh, they usually each have connections to Elton John, too. Should you recall, one of the vital healthful scenes in Nearly Well-known is when Stillwater and their comrades sing the legendary “Tiny Dancer” in unison on the tour bus. Effectively, the Rocket Man himself truly seems in The Nation Bears. Within the scene, the bears mistake him for a fan fussing round in his backyard fairly than the musical icon that he really is.

Nearly Well-known – ‘Tiny Dancer’ Scene

The Nation Bears – Elton John Scene

Humorous sufficient, one of many bear costumes skilled a technical glitch on set in the course of the scene that John appeared in, and its face turned distorted. “And Elton John mentioned to me ‘That appears like me after I did an excessive amount of coke again within the day,'” director Peter Hastings recalled to Display screen Crush’s Matt Singer.

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