Muse's Matthew Bellamy explains why his band contributed to the new Twilight soundtrack

Last week, I spoke to Muse's front man Matthew Bellamy about the band's new album, The Resistance.

The full interview will be up tomorrow, but here is an excerpt from it, in which he discusses how Muse ended up on the soundtrack for New Moon, and he also discuss his new film project, Clash of the Titans:

National Post: You have a song on the new Twilight film. Are you a fan?
Matt Bellamy: Well, I liked The Lost Boys in the '80s. I remember that one had a pretty good soundtrack as well. This sort of film struck me as this generations version of The Lost Boys. It was actually Stephenie Meyer who approached the band quite a few years before the film was name, just as she was becoming known. She came to a concert in Phoenix, in Arizona - I think that's where she lived, or she lived nearby. She was very friendly, and she told us that she liked the music and that she'd like to use the music in the films. It was a few years later that the filmmakers came to us, and we said sure. I had no idea [the first film] was going to be a film as it was, I thought is was going to be an indie film.

NP: You've also put your band forth as being interested in contributing the theme song to a future Bond film.
MB: Yes (laughs).

NP: Are you interested in working on a full film score?
MB: Me personally, yes, I'd be interested in. Not in the Muse style. Picking a film that the music would work. I've been offered to do some work on a remake of Clash of the Titans. It'll be really sort of mental music for a film like that. Totally different to Muse.

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