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Queens of Country trailer

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Just read a tweet with a link to the trailer for the upcoming movie Queens of Country from the guys who produced Blood Into Wine.  Rather than a musical documentary, it seems to be a comedy movie with a country music theme to it.  As you should all know by now Maynard has a role in it:

Queens of Country trailer HD from Dan Stoloff on Vimeo.

Looks like Maynard has a reasonably prominent role! According to the website, the trailer has been out for 6 months, but this is the first I’ve seen or heard of it.  Let us know what you think!

Queens of Country update

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Well known Tool haters Pitchfork have today posted an update on the forthcoming Queens of Country movie by Blood Into Wine directors Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke:

Last year, Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock re-ignited his side project Ugly Casanova to contribute songs to the documentary 180° South. A year later, he’s on his making-music-for-movies grind again. Brock will compose the score for the upcoming feature film Queens of Country, written and directed by Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke (Blood Into Wine,The Heart Is a Drum Machine) and starring Lizzy Caplan (of the late, beloved TV series "Party Down"), Ron Livingston (Office Space), and (wait for it) Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan.

According to a press release, the plot of Queens of Country revolves around "Caplan’s character Jolene and a lost iPod, which the obsessed country music fan is convinced belongs to her soul mate. Jolene quickly finds herself in a hilarious adventure of mistaken identities, line dancing competitions, time machines and doppelgangers." So yeah, your typical lost-iPod-time-machine-country-music-rom-com flick, sounds like. And they say the film industry’s run out of ideas!

The movie, as well as Brock’s score, is slated for a 2012 release. Watch a video of Ugly Casanova performing the 180° South contribution "Here’s to Now" below while you continue to wonder whether Modest Mouse will ever make another album.

No doubt all boned up over the Modest Mouse involvement.  Still it’s been a while since we’ve had an update on this movie and thanks for Jason for the tip!

Maynard in Queens of Country

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In a recent interview with Ryan Page (one of the Blood Into Wine directors) on Movieweb.com, Maynard will be playing the part of a villain on his upcoming movie Queens of Country:

Let me ask you about Queens of Country. Is that a reference to the real Nashville Queens of Country? Like Dolly and Loretta?
Ryan Page: It’s a comedy. It’s not a doc. We are shooting it on May 3rd. We are also shooting it in Arizona. Maynard is going to be in that film, too. It’s about a woman that lives in a small town, and she is obsessed with the queens of country. Dolly, Loretta, Patsy, Wanda Jackson. She even dresses like them. She is totally obsessed. She is in a bad relationship, and she finds an Ipod that has a Queens mix on it. The music really touches her, so she goes on a search to find them. It’s really funny. We are working with (names removed for contractual reasons). I don’t know if I’m aloud to say this. They did a rewrite with us. They helped us polish the script, really.