Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh and director Wes Anderson, who have worked together on multiple movies, will be putting their creative ambitions into building a theme park.
According to Consequence of Sound, Anderson shared the exciting news in a forward he wrote for Mothersbaugh's upcoming book of visual works, Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia. "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," the director wrote. "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."
Mothersbaugh, one of the film industry's most-coveted composers, has worked on four Anderson movies including 1996's Bottle Rocket, 1998's Rushmore, 2001's The Royal Tenenbaums and 2004's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. With the project still in the conceptual phase, there's no word on whether the park will feature any of the worlds from the pair's collaborations.
The singer co-founded Devo in 1972 and has been performing with the band ever since. The group put out their last album, Something for Everybody, in 2010 - 20 years after their previous effort, Smooth Noodle Maps. Rolling Stone gave the album three and a half stars.
"Combining the punk-funk fury of Devo's earliest recordings with synth pop, this ninth disc is frantic and wall-to-wall catchy (particularly 'Human Rocket')," the review reads. "Tossing around goofy buzz-speak like 'Don't tase, me, bro,' Devo have held on to their core belief: If you want to be subversive, be utterly, unrelentingly pop."
And just for old time's sake:
