I wasn’t too crazy about the trailer to The Book of Eli, a post-apocalyptic action flick from brothers Albert and Allen Hughes (From Hell, Menace II Society), but there are two very good reasons to see this movie anyway: Nine Inch Nails collaborator Atticus Ross wrote the score and Tom freakin’ Waits is in it.
Waits plays an unnamed engineer in the film, which—based on the synopsis alone—reminds me of a kind of Waterworld meets The Road. Either way, Anti-’s blog uncovered a great scene between Waits and star Denzel Washington that makes a pretty good case for checking out Waits’ official follow-up to playing the Devil in Terry Gilliam’s recent box office bomb The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
Watch Waits and Washington negotiate some post-apocalyptic electronic repairs with KFC wet naps (?) as currency hereor below: