Arcade Fire Scores Movie Soundtrack

Arcade Fire has written the score for Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly’s new film The Box.

Frontman Win Butler told Pitchfork: “It’s kind of Hitchcocky, movie, orchestral, Mellotron stuff. It’s instrumental music. No songs. It’s interesting.”

“We didn’t really think we were going to do the whole thing, and then it just kind of was easier once we got in… It has so much to do with the editing, and your job is just to help the director. It’s a very different experience.”

The film is based on a short story by author Richard Matheson titled “Button, Button”, first published in the 1970s, and stars Cameron Diaz and Frank Langella.

“It was a very ego-less project,” Butler continued, “the goal was to kind of bang some music out and not be, like, slitting our wrists over if the tambourine is too loud. That was a good experiment.”

The Box is currently scheduled for release in autumn 2009.

Source: Pitchfork, MusicRadar