Reznor was initially going to take some time off after touring, but once director David Fincher started asking him about scoring the upcoming flick -- and after the rocker had read the script -- he changed his tune. According to the NIN website, the soundtrack is almost done. And the movie? "It's really f*cking good. And dark!" Reznor writes. (Which is kind of a relief. Imagine if Fincher had cast Jesse Eisenberg's -- who plays Mark Zuckerberg -- Hollywood twin, Michael Cera. Then we'd probably have a soundtrack featuring The Shins or something else delightfully twee.)
According to MTV, this is the first time Reznor has scored an entire soundtrack -- he's contributed songs to flicks like David Lynch's Lost Highway before. The album should be out before the film premieres on October 1.
So far, we've seen the trailer for the film -- which is basically just a super dramatic collection of words and voiceovers -- and we know that it has a cast full of Hollywood heavyweights and top-tier talent on the production and development side. Still, this bit of information gives us more of a sense of the movie's tone: the aforementioned "dark."
Reznor seems a rather fitting candidate to score the film -- he's had a rather intimate (if not embattled) relationship with the web for years now. From raising money via Twitter, to quitting Twitter and joining again and quitting and joining again, to touting torrents, to being blocked from the Apple App Store, to winning a Webby, there aren't that many digital realms that Reznor hasn't explored. We're interested to see what kind of mood his music sets when the film premieres in the fall.