Mission To Meet Lars Ulrich Featured In New Film

‘Mission to Lars’ is brand new documentary feature film about Tom Spicer, a learning disabled man who, with his siblings' help, goes on a transatlantic quest to find his much obsessed over hero, Lars Ulrich of Metallica.

Tom has Fragile X Syndrome, which is a sort of autism. All he's ever wanted is to meet the Metallica drummer. After 20 years and 10,000 times of asking his journalist sister, Kate, when he was going to meet Lars, she finally cracked and Mission To Lars was underway.

Kate and filmmaker brother, William, break Tom out of his care home in Exmouth, and hit the road, from Bristol to Heathrow to LA to Las Vegas and beyond.

‘Mission to Lars’ was made by Kate with William Spicer and James Moore, both of whom are veterans of music and brand promos, but complete movie novices.

"We had this fantasy of hitting the road with Tom and recreating some of the magic of our teenage years cruising around in £100 cars, eating Burger King and listening to heavy metal on the tape deck,” says Kate. "We thought it would be fun, bonding. We wanted to do something good for our brother. We were also sick of him endlessly asking.”

‘Mission To Lars’ has a small theatrical release through Picturehouse cinemas in the UK in June, and profits will continue to be paid to Mencap.

Here's the trailer:

(Classic Rock Magazine)