Johnny Marr To Score New Film

Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr is composing the original score for The Big Bang, a neo-noir detective story starring Antonio Banderas, Delroy Lindo, Sam Elliott, William Fichtner and Snoop Dogg. That’s right, Snoop D-O-double G.

Marr’s score is reportedly in the same vein as Jonny Greenwood’s (Radiohead) musical score for There Will Be Blood and Eddie Vedder’s Into the Wild.

“This will be Johnny’s first film score and he was just ranked the number one greatest guitarist of all time by Virgin Media,” producer Reece Pearson commented to MovieScore Magazine.

Directed by Tony Krantz (a producer on David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr.), the film stars Banderas as a private detective who is searching for a burlesque performer who no one has ever seen. Banderas also faces a brutal Russian boxer, three LAPD detectives and a billionaire looking to perfect the nuclear physics equivalent of the Big Bang.

A founding member, along with songwriting partner Morrissey, of the legendary band The Smiths, Marr is currently working with Modest Mouse and The Cribs.

The Big Bang is expected to be released in 2010.

Johnny Marr & The Cribs announce / Tour 2010

January

• 13th Chicago,IL Lincoln Hall *
• 14th Ferndale,MI The Magic Bag*
• 15th Toronta,ONT Phoenix Theatre *
• 16th New York,NY Irving Plaza *
• 17th Boston,MA Paradise Rock Club *
• 19th Washington,DC 9.30 Club *
• 20th Atlanta, GA The Earl *
• 22nd Dallas, TX Granada Theatre *
• 23rd Austin, TX The Parish *
• 26th Pomona, CA The Glass House **
• 27th San Francisco, CA Bimbo 365 **
• 29th Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom **
• 30th Seattle, WA Showbox Theatre **
• 31st Vancouver, BC The Venue *** Adam Green & The Dead Trees** Jemima Pearl