Arcade Fire Slowly, Wisely Backing Away From New Richard Kelly Movie
Did you ever see that ’80s Twilight Zone episode where a financially strapped couple is given a box and told if they press the button on it, they’ll receive a lot of money but someone far, far away will die? Thirty minutes later, did you think “wow, I’d like to see this expanded into a movie by the guy who directed Southland Tales, with a soundtrack by the Arcade Fire?” Neither did Win Butler, who sounds a little annoyed about the recent press his band’s received about allegedly working with Richard Kelly, the unwelcome bastard child of David Lynch and George Lucas, on the score for The Box.
From the Arcade Fire’s website, which could use a little less slow-ass animation of birds laying eggs:
Hi everyone. Just to let you all know that (Internet-based fact checking aside) Arcade Fire is NOT doing the soundtrack to any film. We are all off for the summer, writing songs, reading books and keeping our plants alive. Regine, Owen Pallet [violinist Final Fantasy] and I may do an instrumental piece or two for Richard Kelly’s new movie…we met at a show this year and hit if off, but we are not planning on doing any major work for a while, and this would not constitute a soundtrack or a release.”
Translation: We were all “dude, you did Donnie Darko!” when we met, and then we netflixed Southland Tales and, well…no reason to interrupt summer vacation for this.
Arcade Fire [via The Playlist]
