Sean Lennon is set to participate in the forthcoming film Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead, Billboard.com reports. According to director and writer Jordan Galland, the film is "a vampire comedy involving Shakespeare and the Holy Grail, starring Jake Hoffman [who also has a rather famous father], Devon Aoki, Johnny Ventimiglia, Kris Lemche, Ralph Macchio and Jeremy Sisto, with a cameo from Bijou Phillips." The indie flick (about an off-Broadway production involving not-so-deceased scriptwriters, no less) will feature music scored by John Lennon and Yoko Ono's talented kid.
Unlike the film's eponymous Hamlet characters, Lennon has never played a peripheral role in the music world. He's appeared on his mother's recordings since the early '80s, and contributed to many other artists' work as a vocalist, producer, artist and multi-instrumentalist, was part of the bands Stuntman and Cibo Matto, and released his first solo record, Home, in 1998.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead isn't the first film Lennon has scored, having previously done the music for Friendly Fire, a film he co-wrote and starred in as well. He released his most recent album, likewise called Friendly Fire, in 2006 via Capitol Records.
Related links:
SeanOnoLennon.com
Sean Lennon on MySpace
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead on IMDB
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