Tweet When George Lucas decided to revive the Star Wars saga, it was his goal to give fans a back-story of how exactly Anakin Skywalker transformed into Darth Vader. We knew how the story ended, but he wanted to show everyone how it began. Unfortunately for Lucas, the new Star Wars trilogy was, by most accounts, not very good. Unlike Lucas, when Tenacious D aims to tell audiences the history of how they became the greatest band in the world, they do a damn good job of it. The basic story involves Jack Black and Kyle Gass’ epic quest to obtain the Pick of Destiny, a mystical guitar pick fashioned from Satan’s tooth. In Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, we learn the back-story for the formation of The D, from … Read entire article »