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Wes Anderson dreaming of a Devo-inspired theme park
By Aly Barchi | Published on Wednesday 5 November 2014
Always one to dream big, film director and cardboard cut-out kook Wez Anderson has stated an aim to build a theme park “conceived and designed entirely” by Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh.
And then maybe make a movie about it starring Bill Murray as a wry, rich and pickled rollercoaster tycoon, Anjelica Huston as his world-wise estranged lover/the brains behind the operation, and one of the Wilson brothers as the weary-looking guy taking tickets at the ghost train. And featuring a forbidden romance. And stop-motion woodland and/or sea creatures. Possibly.
Anderson and Mothersbaugh have, of course, maintained a silky smooth working relationship over the course of the past nine or so years, with Mothersbaugh composing the scores to a string of Anderson’s films, from 1996’s ‘Bottle Rocket’ to 2004’s ‘The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou’.
Writing (like a smartass character in one of his own goddamn movies) in the foreword to ‘Myopia’, the forthcoming book of Mothersbaugh’s artworks, Anderson says: “I hope to soon secure the means to commission the construction of an important and sizeable theme park to be conceived and designed entirely by Mark Mothersbaugh”.
“For 40 years he has set about creating a body of work which amounts to his own Magic Kingdom, where the visitor is amused and frightened, often simultaneously”, adds he.
