What, no collaboration? Eddie Vedder, the throaty grunge singer who’s banjo yodelling fueled Sean Penn’s teen-angst-in-the-woods film, “Into The Wild,” is getting back on the music soundtracks train (he also contributed music to Phil Donahue’s Iraq War doc too).
According to Billboard, Veddy, along with R&B smoothster John Legend (that’s a pair) are contributing music to the documentary miniseries based on historian-author Howard Zinn’s 1980 book “A People’s History of the United States” (a book that Matt Damon’s character says will” blow your hair back” in “Good Will Hunting”).
Titled “The People Speak,” the project will feature music and readings based on America’s struggles with war, class, race and the rights of women. No network is attached yet.
Actors lending their various talents include Matt Damon (see? you knew there was a connection), Marisa Tomei, Danny Glover, Viggo Mortensen, Josh Brolin, David Strathairn and Kerry Washington.
Meanwhile, in other hot movie music news, now-bloated Hollywood method actor Val Kilmer (he of bloated Jim Morrison mien) is shopping around his own record of original music according to the New York Observer.
Mr. Kilmer, 47, who starred as Jim Morrison in the 1991 Oliver Stone biopic The Doors, and his partner Mick Rossi, a New York-based keyboardist and percussionist, have been passing around a modestly designed CD whose black cover reads Val Kilmer: Sessions With Mick.
A highly personal recording, it features seven songs co-written by the duo that run the gamut from foot-stompin’ rock to moody, guttural ballads
Aren’t you fucking excited? Someone call up Steven Segal, we smell a tour.