I'd put you in the movies, if movies were mine to make

All the articles I read before/during this last tour made mention of some secretive movie project. Well...this made its way onto YouTube, which led to some Googling, which led to Mike Viola's site, specifically the news section on March 14, 2007:

I’ve been back and forth from LA writing songs for a new movie called Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox story. It’s being shot now so I hesitate to give too many details, but…basically it’s a spoof bio pic. It pokes fun at movies like Ray, Walk The Line, Great Balls Of Fire, The Buddy Holly Story. Not poking fun at the music, but how the movies all follow the same storyline tragectory. So… they needed lots of songs for this thing. Marshall Crenshaw wrote the title track and there were a few other writers involved too like Van Dyke Parks. Most of the songs I co-wrote with Dan Bern, one of the best writers I’ve ever worked with.

Here's the IMDB page for the movie, which was written by Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan.

I have it on good authority that DB and Paul Kuhn were recording some music this week for Jonathan Demme's (Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia) upcoming Jimmy Carter documentary as well.

(thanks to mix me a molotov for the link in today's post!)