Does anyone even give a rat’s ass about “Christmas on Mars” anymore? The painfully long-overdue Flaming Lips Xmas film is sort of like the Lochness Monster, Chinese Democracy and Big Foot rolled into one.
In October, the Lips’ Wayne Coyne swore up and down that the film would be ready for the 2008 SXSW film festival and of course that they blew that deadline like a whore in Vegas.
Well, speaking of Big Foot and long-standing myths, according to Billboard, via Extended Play, the Lips will premiere “Christmas on Mars” at the 2008 Sasquatch! Music Festival, held May 24-26 at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Quincy, Washington along with a “U.F.O. show,” performance featuring a “replica flying saucer” amongst their myriad of onstage nonsense.
In some Lips book Jim DeRogatis wrote, Coyne said “If [it’s] good, people will walk away thinking they saw a movie about an optimistic guy who decides to celebrate Christmas even though the space station is careering toward certain doom, but that’s not really what it’s about. ‘Christmas on Mars’ is really about the idea of belief: that if people around you believe in you, it influences what you can do.”
Appropos considering no one really believes (or cares) that it will actually screen anywhere at anytime ever. Wayne Coyne, you’ve squandered your good will with terrible soundtrack whoring and the 6-year late promise of a movie we once thought would be worth watching.
An old story we wrote contains two different trailers/sequences for ‘Mars,’ but according to Extended Play, lots of this footage has been reshot. Whatever…
