REZNORWATCH: MORE ON THE SOCIAL NETWORK SCORE, AND THE YEAR ZERO TELEVISION SERIES AIN’T DEAD YET?
Trent Reznor may have dissolved Nine Inch Nails, but the coolest rock star in pretty much the history of ever is still keeping plenty busy. Earlier this week, he released the score the co-composed with Atticus Ross for The Social Network, charging just three bucks for a download from Amazon for the for the fist 48 hours; shock of shocks, Deadline reports that it’s been the Amazon mp3 store’s top seller ever since. (As of this writing, the soundtrack is still available for a mere $2.99; it will go up to a whopping $4.99 later today. It’s not metal, but it is fucking great. Go get it.)
Meanwhile, /Film has a fifty-minute (!) audio interview with Reznor regarding the score, in which the always-loquacious goth idol gives some interesting insights into the music. You can stream or download it here.
And as if all that wasn’t enough to scratch your Reznor itch, try this: Remember how Trent wanted to do an HBO series based on his album Year Zero? I can’t blame if you don’t; that was more than two years ago. But lest we forget, the film and television business can move very, verrrrrry slowly. And so I was elated to see that the project is apparently still alive. Reznor tells the Los Angeles Times:
“We are in [the development phase of] pre-production with HBO and BBC [Worldwide Productions] to do a miniseries,” Reznor said Monday. “It’s exciting. I probably shouldn’t say too much about it except that I understand that there’s a thousand hurdles before anything shows up in your TV listing. It’s been an interesting and very educational process and it cleared the HBO hurdle a few months ago and now we’re writing drafts back and forth. So it’s very much alive and incubating at the moment.”
Reznor goes on to give some more details:
“Our writer is Daniel Knauf from ‘Carnivàle’ and he’s busy with pages right now and revising the overall world Bible. It’s been an interesting collaborative effort but I’ve learned that [television development] moves at a glacial pace.”
Reznor’s other collaborators on the project include Lawrence Bender, most famous for being Quentin Tarantino’s producer, and Kevin Kelly Brown, who has previously been an executive producer on television series such as Roswell and Dr. Vegas.
Now, I’ll be honest: The presence of a Dr. Vegas producer is not that encouraging, and I thought that Carnivàle, the HBO series which was cancelled after two seasons, was one of the most boring, pretentious pieces of shit I’ve ever seen. (Knauf also worked on My Own Worst Enemy, the Christian Slater spy-with-multiple-personalities drama that got cancelled after just a few episodes last season, and Standoff, a Fox series which got cancelled after just a few episodes the season before that; in other words, the guy has a SWELL track record.)
But my love of all things Reznor mean that, for now, at least, I’m going to give the the Year Zero episodic the benefit of the doubt; it’s just hard for me to believe that Reznor would ultimately put his name on a project he doesn’t believe in.
I guess we’ll find out if Year Zero ever actually makes it to air.
-AR
