Attention movie-goers, music-lovers, and Party Down fans: Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock has announced that he will provide the music (an original score) for Queens of Comedy, a forthcoming feature film that is neither related to Queens of Comedy nor (mercifully) a biopic on Dolly Parton.
Last year, Brock contributed music as Ugly Casanova to 180˚ South, the Kon-Tiki-like action/adventure film in which a man travels to Patagonia in homage to Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins. If you didn’t see that one in the theater, you may have a better chance of watching Queens of Country on the big screen (albeit still in an independent one). It’s co-directed by Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke, who previously worked together on the Maynard-loves-drinking film Blood into Wine and The Heart Is a Drum Machine (Page also produced the documentary Moog).
The story sounds like a mixture between Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist and every music fan’s dream at age 15: a girl, who happens to have an insane passion for country music, finds an iPod, decides that the owner is her one true love, and sets out on an epic quest to find him. The role of the countrified heroine (her name is Jolene, even) is played by Lizzy Caplan, everybody’s cute-and-sassy crush from the show Party Down. Ron Livingston — ahem, Office Space — also stars, with Joe Lo Truglio and, in a quirky twist, Tool’s Maynard James Keenan.
Given the presence of Maynard and the fact that Brock is not exactly Garth Brooks, we might assume that the soundtrack will not entirely be a stylistic tribute to Johnny Cash or Wanda Jackson (who does appear in the film, according to imdb.com). Who can tell? Queens of Country isn’t slated to come out until 2012.
• Isaac Brock/Modest Mouse: http://www.modestmouse.com/photoblog
