Film opens tonight; download Bruce's title track on iTunes now
Can you smell what the Boss is cookin'? It's opening night for The Wrestler in Los Angeles (Pacific Arclight, The Landmark) and New York (Lincoln Plaza, Sunshine Cinemas), where audiences get first look at the Mickey Rourke comeback flick featuring Springsteen's title track tonight. Theaters in additional cities will be showing the film in the coming weeks. Watch the trailer here.
Rourke recently talked to Uncut about how his old friend wound up writing a song for the movie: "I wrote Bruce a letter, because we’ve known each other over twenty years, and he knows what I used to be, or whatever. Where I went. What I’d been reduced to. I told him how I felt lucky now and didn’t have to end up being this guy, being Randy (character from The Wrestler). A while later I got a call in the middle of the night: he said he’d written a little song, for nothing. It’s fucking beautiful, right? I was honoured he took the time, because he’s a busy cat. I mean, I’m so goddam proud of this magical movie and to have Bruce’s input… ain’t nobody in Hollywood with all their millions can just ring the man and he’ll do a song, y’know?"
Springsteen's song, of course, will be included as a bonus track on Working on a Dream; as of this week, it's also now available for download from iTunes.
In addition to Bruce's Golden Globe nomination for the song, there's certainly an Oscar Watch: yesterday's press release from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirms Bruce as up for Oscar consideration, with "The Wrestler" on a list of 49 songs "contending for nominations in the Original Song category." That'll be whittled down in early January, when the songs are screened for voters to determine nominations.
New York Magazine's Vulture blog writes: "Expect to see the Boss on Oscar night. Bruce Springsteen’s song "The Wrestler," written exclusively for the film, plays over the closing credits, and it's straight from The Ghost of Tom Joad — aching, sad, gorgeous. The song's so good, you almost expect Sean Penn to write another movie based off it, like with The Indian Runner and Bruce's 'Highway Patrolman.'"
And finally, this Friday at 4:00 p.m., director Darren Aronofsky will be discussing the film on E Street Radio -- that's Sirius channel 10, and XM channel 58.
- December 17, 2008
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WG
