While we wait to find out just what film Graham Coxon is scoring, fellow Brit Johnny Marr has been hired to pen the score to the forthcoming mystery pic, “The Big Bang.” The film, which stars Antonio Banderas, Delroy Lindo, William Fichtner, Sam Elliot and uh, Snoop Dogg is about a detective’s investigation into the death of a stripper who no one has ever seen, which is compounded by the fact that everyone he talks to ends up dead.
Marr has had a much more interesting post-Smiths career than Morrissey’s now tired, big-haired dramatics, becoming a session player, gun for hire, and lending his talents to a wide array of music projects, most recently joining the ranks of indie bands Modest Mouse and The Cribs. Not too shabby.
The film, which is directed by long time TV producer, and unproven film director Tony Krantz and musically supervised by Rudy Chung (for some reason the press release made a job of pointing him out) frankly sounds like a straight-to-video movie to us. Both Krantz and Chung are television journeymen who aren’t exactly known for making bold, creative decisions or working on visionary projects. We’re kind of surprised that Marr is attached but it remains to be seen if its just another paycheck for him or if something in the material inspired him to take his first film score job.
Our interest is marginally piqued by Marr’s involvement but we’ll wait to see if the film is anything more than B-grade potboiler. “The Big Bang” is currently in post-production and it doesn’t have North American distribution as of yet.