When was the last time you saw a Francis Ford Coppola film you actually enjoyed? Lord knows it wasn’t Jack, and I hope for your sake it wasn’t Dracula — possibly The Rainmaker. Regardless, the guy hasn’t made an exceptionally solid film in quite some time, and what questionably halfway decent flicks he has made in the recent past have definitely left zero room for creative surprises……. until now. For Coppola’s next film Twixt Now and Sunrise, he will be enlisting Baltimore’s crazy king Dan Deacon to score it. And hey, if that weren’t enough, Deacon and Coppola are also going to be collaborating on a large(r)-scale secret project in the near future. Seriously?
With Dan Deacon scoring and all, you might think the plot of Twixt Now and Sunrise would involve, I don’t know, midget clowns, glitter, and visions of Satan or something, but it’s actually going to be a “gothic romance” staring Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Ben Chaplin, and Elle Fanning. Don’t worry, I’m just as wigged-out by all this as you are. No word on a release date for the film, but according to IMDB, it’s currently in post-production.
In other news, Deacon’s got some new composition for So Percussion that he’s debuting in NYC on the 20th and a new orchestral work he’s performing with the Kitchner-Waterloo Symphony in Kitchner, Ontario early next month. Other than that, I’m not convinced any of this is actually real.
Shows:
01.20.10 New York, NY - Merkin Concert Hall *
02.03.10 Kitchener, ON - Conrad Centre for the Arts #
02.04.10 Kitchener, ON - Conrad Centre for the Arts #
02.12.10 Iowa City, IA - Gabe’s Iowa City
02.23.10 San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop
03.13.10 Denton, TX - 35 Conferette
* So Percussion
# billed as “Dan Deacon’s Electronic Bus”
• Dan Deacon: http://www.dandeacon.com
