Decemberpost.

This is the first week of December, which is as good of a reason as any for a new blog post. So here we are.

No news on the music thus far, although we expect Richard and Katie are hard at work at it. After all, you know what they say: "You can't rush art." Of course there's the obvious example to the contrary - we shot Parachute Kids over seven days, and finished editing in about a month and a half - but that's besides the point. I like to believe somewhere in the strange, fantastical regions of my mind that writing music is different.

Unless it just so happens that Beethoven finished his Symphony No. 9 in less than 24 hours. Nope, I just checked on Wikipedia. It took him six years. Ha! My argument still stands.

slashfilm.com posted this on John Hillcoat's next film, which he also briefly talked about when Marc and I were at the Apple Store in Soho for The Road. It was pretty depressing. Apparently Nick Cave had just finished a screenplay, people had read it and agreed that it was better than The Proposition (which is a pretty high bar to eclipse), Hillcoat had gotten big-profile names like Shia LaBeouf, Ryan Gosling, Amy Adams and Scarlett Johansson interested in it, but it's going to be nearly impossible for him to secure funding for it because film execs these days are all half-assed pussies only willing to push "franchise films and low budget comedies".

But anyway, they're going to call the film The Promised Land. Which is very funny, but only because a film in the works by a good friend of ours (and the co-director of Parachute Kids) David Kirkeby, happens to be titled Through the Promised Land.

Marc pestered him about the title on Facebook, and he kind of mutely replied, "generic title". Which it is, in a way.

UPDATE: Just heard this, but apparently Richard has started recording the score! Hooray! I can't wait to hear it.