Many of you may have read earlier last week about Arcade Fire getting ready to work on the soundtrack for Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly’s new film, The Box, well it turns out that’s not exactly true. The story all began after Kelly wrote on his MySpace post, “We’re staring to work with a very famous band who is honoring us with being the first filmmakers they’ve ever scored a film with.” Then a few days later producer/engineer Markus Dravs wrote, on a note on his website, “[I’m] off to Canada to work with Arcade Fire on a Sound-track for the forth coming Richard Kelly film.” This led many in the media, including ourselves, to believe Arcade Fire would be scoring the film, as it turns out that isn’t 100% correct. Win Butler has clarified things for fans and media alike. On his blog post titled, “NO SUNDTRACKS GO”, Butler wrote:
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Hi everyone. Hope you are having a great spring… just to let you all know that (internet-based fact checking aside) Arcade Fire is NOT doing the soundtrack to any film. We are all off for the summer, writing songs, reading books, and keeping our plants alive. Regine, Owen Pallet [sic] and I may do an instrumental piece or two for Richard Kelly’s new movie…we met at a show this year and hit it off, but we are not planning on doing any major work for a while, and this would not constitute a soundtrack or a release.
