Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead and Slayer's Tom Araya are ready to hit the big screen in an upcoming film called Gutterdämmerung by Belgian-Swedish visual artist Bjorn Tagemose. Lemmy will be playing a crazed general leading the "Armour Cavalry" during a dark explosive moment for the two heroines of the film, while Araya will be playing a mysterious messenger of darkness bringing the light by "setting the silver screen on fire with a truly primal performance," according to a press release.
I'm hooked. What the hell is this movie about?
Much in the tradition of classic movies of 1920’s Hollywood, the film is mostly silent but instead of a lone piano a live rock band of rock express the emotions and action whilst special effects from the film explode to life all around the audience. Think of a deafening rock ‘n’ roll version of Secret Cinema taking place in hell and you might just begin to have an idea of what Gutterdämmerung is.
Tagemose has assembled the greatest cast in the history of rock movies; Grace Jones, Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins (who co-wrote Gutterdämmerung’s script) and Eagles Of Death Metal’s Jesse Hughes are just the first names to be announced with more truly legendary rock ‘n’ roll names to be revealed in the coming weeks.
This spectacular film will tour with it’s live band and a live narrator at the end of 2015 / early 2016.
Holy shit, this sounds amazing! At the very least I hope I can snag a copy of it when it's all done touring, though seeing it firsthand would be ideal. The concept of a largely silent movie accompanied by a sole soundtrack could be extremely interesting, as in a story told mainly through emotive acting and the language of music. We need to hear more about this!
Plus it sounds like more is coming in terms of actors and actresses.
