http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermo...wsitemID=126383

Probably be a shit movie, but maybe theres a glimmer of jizzy hope.

Would be awesome.

According to a posting on the movie news site Ain't It Cool News, Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON "have been not-so-quietly" scoring "Jonah Hex", the comic-book Western/horror film starring Josh Brolin in the lead role, with support from John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Michael Fassbender and Michael Shannon. The movie is based on the DC comic series about a horribly scarred antihero who is "a rough-and-tumble gunslinger and part-time bounty hunter whose adventures always ended in blood."

Former Pixar animator Jimmy Hayward directed the film for a summer 2010 release.

In a May 2009 interview with Billboard.com, MASTODON drummer Brann Dailor revealed that a film adaptation of the band's latest album, "Crack the Skye", is well within the realm of possibility — albeit not in production yet.

Dailor told Billboard.com that the quartet sat down with a film director, whom he declined to name, and "wrote out a screenplay that reads from song to song. We didn't storyboard it, but we wrote a screenplay." Three different directors, he added, have expressed interest in taking on the project.

"That'd be killer if it actually happens," Dailor said. "That's something that's cool about making concept records, that opportunity for more to be done, artistically. If you just had an album with a bunch of songs that didn't have anything to do with each other and there was no common thread, that aspect of the art wouldn't be there. But with ('Crack the Skye'), we have that possibility."

"Crack the Skye"'s seven songs, produced by Brendan O'Brien, weave together a conceptual story involving a quadriplegic, astral travel, Stephen Hawking's theories on wormholes and the philosophies of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin. "I think it's definitely the closest we've come to a fully cohesive story from start to finish," Dailor said.

The movie and the scoring sound fucking awesome. Can't wait.

"Cohesive" is a word that sucks.

This sounds pretty fucking cool.

Megan fox and mastodon? Sounds like a good mix to me.

Obviously, if this is an outlet for the oft-hinted-at "heavy" album, I think it could be great. I don't know much about the comic, but I suppose it could provide a good basis for another story driven record.

Hopefully, they have control of the entire soundtrack/score, much like Ed Vedder did with the "Into the Wild" stuff...could be awesome.

Could be interesting. Movie actually looks like it could be cool if its done right.

there'll be so much of brent's banjo riffage happening, it'll be absurd.

Good call, I'd actually go to that movie.

If Mastodon did anything like this, I would be enthralled, because they wouldn't be part of some facious SP? work.

It sounds good. Hopefully it won't end up a terrible mess.

Great thread.
Shitty thread title.
I'm above any form of Irony today. Sorry/Fuck Off/Sorry.

I'll go see it just for this.

Its not irony, its a plain lie on my part. Its just too easy to get a rise out of people who like comic books
It is true though that I think that there is a definite thread of childishness that runs through most of the classic style Hero comic books. But that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Agreed. thats why I call those 'Kiddie Books' if you check my thread on comic books, those mature books are the only ones I read apart from the X-books (which some are kiddie ) and thats 'cause they are like family to me BUT I know some guys my age who read nothing BUT kiddie books, Spidey, Iron Man, Justice League, Avengers etc and I've tried getting 'em on to mature stuff, saying 'this is our pay off ' but nope, they just dig the light fantasy I guess.

Back on topic - MASTODONANIMATIONISMOHFUCKYEAHFUCKOFF!

I'm all for anything that let's these guys flex their creative masto-muscles.

Looking forward to it!

Confirmed on Mastodons facebook site!!! June 2010, in theatres.... everywhere? Hope so.

Warner Bros I think.

This is going to be awesome. I hope it's disguistingly heavy to shut everyone up.

Also confirmed on the main site.
And indeed a Warner release


I hope as bartender.

pfft, as if he won't be some grizzly old possessed prospector.

Holy fuck! This is going to be fucking solid.

Really excited for this now. I love this band

It has Megan Fox in it, and from the way things look now.... it will probably be everywhere.

Shit, just heard about this and did a search.
I honestly don't think it's even gonna be heavy.
Still very cool though.
Won't see the movie.

i'm fully expecting the soundtrack to just be like...a slightly more 'western' version of Oblivion over and over.

I'm fully expecting the soundtrack to sound like like the bastard lovechild of Neurosis and Banjo & Sullivan.

A bit of new info in an interview from Paste Magazine with Troy:

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009...-score-swi.html

Troy sounds fairly amped about it. Bless his cottons.