By Zachary Swickey
Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock has been busy in the studio working on his group’s latest album – with Outkast’s Big Boi producing some tracks – but the enigmatic singer has just tacked another project on to his to-do list: scoring a film.
Brock has signed on to provide the audio accompaniment to a western comedy film (don’t see those very often) called Queens of Country. The movie is to be directed by Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke – the same fellas who brought us Blood Into Wine, a wine documentary starring Tool’s Maynard James Keenan. Rather appropriate since the singer is set to appear in the film as the antagonist – a bigger role than the cameos he’s used to.
Meanwhile, the lead actors are Ron Livingston, Sex and the City’s Jack Berger and star of the cult classic Office Space, and Lizzy Caplan of my favorite canceled show, Party Down (which was produced by Paul Rudd). The movie focuses on Caplan’s character, Jolene, who finds a lost iPod that she believes belongs to her soulmate. With Maynard playing the bad guy and Ron Livingston (assumingly) as the inevitable love interest, it sounds like the film has potential, and is a perfect match for the quirky Brock.
Bands or music artists providing the score for films is nothing new. Take, for example, Queen’s emotional “Who Wants to Live Forever” specifically being written for Highlander – a film about a sword-wielding warrior who’s lived since the 1500s. Here are five recent collabs that caught our attention and show the trend has no sign of slowing down. Read More...
by Cara Alwill