Ben Gibbard, Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock Score Sundance Films
This year’s Sundance Film Festival has a few musical all-stars on its side. Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard and Beastie Boys rapper/producer Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz have both scored films that will screen at the 2014 festival, which takes place from January 16th–26th in Park City, Utah.
Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard Strikes Out on His Own
Gibbard has provided the score for Laggies, a dark comedy starring Keira Knightley and Chloë Grace Moretz and directed by Lynn Shelton, reports Indiewire. According to the Sundance film guide, the plot follows a 28-year-old woman named Megan (Knightley) who is “content to remain in a permanent adolescence.”
Horovitz’s score sets the documentary No No: A Dockumentary, which focuses on the life and career of Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis, who threw a rare no-hitter while tripping on acid in 1970. This isn’t Horovitz’s only recent foray into the film industry: last summer, the rapper was in talks to appear in Noah Baumbach’s upcoming feature While We’re Young, which stars Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as a married couple who begin a friendship with a younger, more free-spirited couple (played by Amanda Seyfried and Girls‘ Adam Driver). Horovitz and his Beasties bandmate Michael “Mike D” Diamond are also working on a memoir based on their band’s legendary run.
Meanwhile, Gibbard recently reunited with his Death Cab bandmates to start work on their eighth studio album, which follows 2011’s Codes and Keys.