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Grinderman Unveil “Heathen Child” Video
-As odd and foreboding as director John Hillcoat’s 30-second teaser trailers have been, I, for one, still didn’t see this one coming. Playlist notes frames of Nick Cave dressed up as Krishna, P4k lists various Grindermen destroying civilizations with laser beams among the clip’s wonderful WTFery, and Sasha Frere-Jones points to 1977 Japanese horror/comedy Hausu, but you could really take analysis of this 3-minute video in a dozen directions.
It’s like a Rorschach inkblot test; what themes stand out to you in the Grinderman “Heathen Child” video? Beware, though: it’s mildly NSFW at parts and entirely awesome (via Pitchfork).
Watch: John Hillcoat Directs Grinderman 2 Teaser
Not only are Interpol and the Walkmen set to drop new albums on September 14, but Grinderman will drop the follow-up to their self-titled debut on that date as well. In our first peek of what’s to come from Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, and co., Anti Records posted this teaser video of a wolf stalking past a candlelit bathtub, followed by a 5-second clip of deliciously violent rock. Directed by the band’s previous co-conspirator John Hillcoat, of The Proposition and The Road fame, this brief glimpse all but ensures that Grinderman 2 won’t be any less tame than it’s predecessor. I can’t wait to hear it.
We’ve been hyping a number of big projects set to come out this year lately, but now one has been sadly lost. We posted last fall about Nick Cave and director John Hillcoat’s next project, a film adaptation of the novel The Wettest Country in the World, featuring a Cave-penned script, and what we later found out was set to star (TFB favorite) Ryan Gosling and Shia LaBeouf. Well, I’m not happy to report that the film, The Promised Land, has become the victim of the struggling non-franchise portion of the film industry.
“My own new project – with a much-loved script by Nick Cave and a dream all-star cast – has fallen apart,” wrote Hillcoat in a diary entry published in the Telegraph (via /Film). “The finance company that we began The Road with has also fallen apart, having to radically downsize to one remaining staff member. The great divide has begun, with only very low-budget films being made or huge 3-D franchise films.”
Hillcoat goes on to bemoan internet piracy and the current economic climate, adding, “I end the year appropriately – gazing into the apocalypse of my own industry.”
It’s likely to provide little consolation, but at least we have that Grizzly Bear-scored Ryan Gosling film to look forward to. Okay, that was a weak attempt to end this story on a happy note. R.I.P. The Promised Land and Nick Cave’s gold statue.
Nick Cave and director John Hillcoat are developing quite the symbiotic relationship: Cave wrote the script for (and scored) Hillcoat’s The Proposition (one of our favorite movies here at 24b) and scored Hillcoat’s upcoming The Road. Now the pair are working on two new projects: bringing The Death of Bunny Munro to the telly and new film The Wettest County to the big screen.
Cave mentioned to Spinner last month that he’d be interested in taking his latest book, The Death of Bunny Munro, from the page to the screen:
“I want to do a TV series or at least like a three-part TV series. You can go deeper with TV in a way, within actually creating a character. You have more time to live with the character.”