The Flaming Lips Working on New Film

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The Flaming Lips Working on New Film

Christmas on Earth?

Mar 08, 2010 By Laura Studarus Photography by Wendy Lynch Redfern

Sultans of strange The Flaming Lips are no strangers to a wacky visuals or outlandish ideas. After collaborating with kissing-cousins Stardeath and White Dwarfs on a Dark Side of the Moon recreation, baring it all in a music video, and oh yeah, releasing double-album Embryonic, lead lip Wayne Coyne is heading back into the world of filmmaking, reportedly working on the follow-up to seven-years-in-the-making movie, Christmas on Mars. Brace yourself, Christmas 2017 is going to be awesome!

As Coyne told Billboard, the new as-yet-untitled project will star the usual suspects—his friends, family, and bandmates. However, Coyne adds, "I'm gonna try to get real actors...celebrities to show up and have fun with us for a couple of nights. I'm in the process of begging Justin Timberlake to be part of it; if I'm lucky I'll be able to wear him down in another year." Just don't expect him to start a countdown on his creative pursuit. Says Coyne, "Because I get to do it with people I love and it's my art, I don't care how long it takes."

(Via Pitchfork)

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