The Flaming Lips to cast Justin Timberlake in new movie?
The Flaming Lips are once again making a movie, but this time they are leaving out the spaceships. As the group plan their follow-up to 2008's Christmas On Mars their sights are set on er, Justin Timberlake.
"I'm in the process of begging [him]," frontman Wayne Coyne told Billboard, referring to the SexyBack singer. "If I'm lucky I'll be able to wear him down in another year." Although the Flaming Lips haven't revealed their new movie's title, plot, or whether Coyne will once again be painted green, the group are determined to nab "real actors" for certain roles, alongside family, friends and, we suppose, bassists. "[I want] celebrities to show up and have fun with us for a couple of nights."
Like Christmas On Mars, the movie will be shot on a shoestring budget in Coyne's hometown of Oklahoma City. But whereas the band's first film was stuffed with rocket-ships and alien antennae, the new one will be earthbound. "My only goal was that I didn't have to build space station-looking sets every time I wanted to have someone say something," Coyne said. "This one is set in someone's house, a backyard and a slaughterhouse; all those are available to me right here."
Not that this will necessarily accelerate the film-making process. "I think everybody would be relieved if it all got done in six weeks and we could say, 'Look at that!'" Coyne said. "But because I get to do it with people I love and it's my art, I don't care how long it takes." He's not kidding: Christmas On Mars took seven years.