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After seducing us on the Big Day Out tour this January, Arcade Fire was reported to be taking a break. Well, it turns out we were duped: the Montreal band has in fact been scoring the next film from Donnie Darko auteur Richard Kelly.
As a creative force, Arcade Fire has a better proven strike-rate than Kelly. The director’s last big screen outing, Southland Tales, tanked spectacularly overseas, ensuring a straight-to-DVD release here. While some argue it’s a misunderstood work of genius and a worthy successor to Darko, the general prognosis was fatal. Regardless, Kelly has bounced on to a new project, The Box, based on a 1970 short story by Richard Matheson and starring Cameron Diaz. Its plot involves a couple who find a mystery box with a big, bad button. Pushing the button means the couple is showered with money, but someone in the world is killed at random. Moral dilemma, you see.
On his blog, Kelly dropped this hint about Arcade Fire’s involvement: “We’re starting to work with a very famous band honouring us with being the first film-makers they’ve ever scored a film with.” The sleuths over at Pitchfork Media, though, turned up this more revealing tit-bit from producer Markus Dravs. “Having finished Coldplay’s forthcoming album,” he reported, ”[I’m] now off to Canada to work with Arcade Fire on a soundtrack for the forthcoming Richard Kelly film.” Shazam! It’s a match made in indie-geek nirvana.
