Nine Inch Nails frontman and Academy Award winner Trent Reznor has been on the official Nine Inch Nails message board to give fans an update on all the things going on in his extremely busy life.
You can read the full post at the bottom of this post, but the main points to take away are that Nine Inch Nails is still very much alive and Reznor “wants to work on that next;” How To Destroy Angels are working on finishing their album, which they hope to release in Fall; and he is very excited about his work on David Fincher’s next film The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, as well as the film itself.
Reznor also addresses the crazy story that hit the net last week about him reportedly scoring and starring in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Apparently Reznor has signed on to record the soundtrack which he says is “very different from the Fincher films,” but his acting role has been vastly overstated. Director Timur Bekmambetov managed to persuade him to have a cameo role in the film, which they had hoped to keep as a surprise, but ended up getting warped into a bizarre and incorrect story.
All of this comes as good news for fans of Trent Reznor, particularly those who believed that Nine Inch Nails’ day was done.
Read the full post here:
What a surreal week, capping of an equally surreal few months! Thank you all for the support and kind words throughout. I need to once again point out the reason that score worked so well was David Fincher. We were simply executing his vision and it was an honor and an eduction working with him. Which brings me to:
The Girl WIth the Dragon Tattoo. Atticus and I are hard at work scoring David’s next film, which will be opening this Christmas. We’ve been composing quite a bit of music for this and have just begun to see some of what’s been shot. Trust me when I say this film (and of course the music!) will not disappoint.
Perhaps I misspoke on the red carpet or wherever it was I said the new How To Destroy Angels record is finished – it is not. We’ve been working since last summer on it and are due to mix it this summer for a fall release. We’ve spent a lot of time experimenting and finding our own sound and identity this time around and we’re very happy with the results. The three columns of things I’m currently funneling music into – HTDA, NIN and film work – I believe will start to make more sense to you (and me) as everything unfolds. By having a few different outlets for my work I’m finding more inspiration within each one. No, Nine Inch Nails is not dead and I plan to focus on that next.
And finally, I am friends with Timur Bekmambetov. He’s an interesting and very talented director that caught my attention with his film Night Watch (check it out if you haven’t). He asked me if I was interested in scoring his new film he’s doing with Tim Burton entitled “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”. I was familiar with the book, read the script and it felt like an interesting challenge as a composer – very different from the Fincher films. While discussing the film with Timur he started gently pressing me to play a small role in the film. The idea was a cameo-esque role that would be kept under wraps and be a surprise around opening night. I was considering this when I awoke a few days ago to the news I am now STARRING in ALVH (which is obviously not true). Fuck. We both apparently forgot the internet existed AND THERE ARE NO SURPRISES anymore.
So… do me a favor and act surprised, OK?
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