Trent Reznor is a prolific artist who has not been twiddling his thumbs since taking a break from Nine Inch Nails.
He has been making music with a new group, How To Destroy Angels, along with his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, and Atticus Ross.
He was planning on taking a well deserved break when David Fincher came a knockin’. The filmmaker and music video director has worked with Trent Reznor before. He made an offer the Nine Inch Nails frontman could simply not refuse.
Reznor describes how it went down on the NIN website: "David Fincher started inquiring about my interest in scoring his upcoming film, The Social Network… When I actually read the script and realized what he was up to, I said goodbye to that free time I had planned."
The film revolves around Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. It opens October 1. Reznor has been working on the score with Atticus Ross and reveals the record will likely be released a few weeks before.
Music by Nine Inch Nails has appeared on movie soundtracks before, including Natural Born Killers and Lost Highway. This will be Reznor’s first full movie score.