Usually reclusive and sporadic by nature, Scott Walker now seems to have decided to ditch that modus operandi since his excellent Bish Bosch from 2012, which had been preceded by a six-year silence since 2006’s The Drift. First he blew our minds by announcing a collaborative album with sunn O))) that will be available this month, and now comes the news that he’s scoring the film The Childhood of a Leader.
The Childhood of a Leader seems to be a pretty big, Hollywood kind of movie starring Robert Pattinson and directed by Brady Corbet. But rest assured, dark-minions-of-Scott-Walker, despite the high profile of the film, it’s a suitably “Scott Walker-esque” project, described as “a chilling fable about the rise of fascism in the 20th Century” and quite probably a film adaptation of go-to existentialist Jean-Paul Satre’s short story of the same name. So yeah, it’s going to be bleak and creepy.
There’s not too much more information at the moment, the film has only recently begun filming so it’s presumably a while before you can hear/see the project, however, you can tide yourself over with this photo posted on Instagram by one of the staffers on The Childhood of a Leader, which announces Scott Walker’s involvement and shows the man himself sans glasses and cap (which is pretty rare in and of itself):
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Scott Walker is composing the score for our next film "The Childhood of a Leader" and we could not be anymore thrilled. http:/m.screendaily.com/5078575.article
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