Does anyone remember the indie-rock band Stellastarr* who were once touted in the whole New York indie-rock comeback in the wake of the Strokes? Well, the band didn’t really amount to much commercially, but their frontman, singer/guitarist Shawn Christensen might have other aspirations anyhow. The Stellstarr founder just sold his spec script called, “The Karma Coalition,” do a subsidiary of Warner Bros. called Lin Pictures.
No, it’s not about a struggling indie rock band in Brooklyn, the story focuses on “a professor who engages in a game of cat and mouse with a corrupt detective after he’s told his dead wife of five years might still be alive. He uncovers the existence of a secret organization responsible for faking her death but suffers the consequences of that knowledge,” according to the Hollywood Reporter. Who knew bands that sounded like a cross between Jane’s Addiction and The Killers were such aspiring thriller writers?
Rodrigo Perez is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Playlist, which he launched in 2007. He has worked in entertainment journalism since 2000, including at MTV, and has written for SPIN, IndieWire, Pitchfork, Complex, Magnet, and various music, film, and entertainment publications over the past two decades.
- Rodrigo Perez
- Rodrigo Perez
- Rodrigo Perez
- Rodrigo Perez
- Rodrigo Perez
- Rodrigo Perez
- Rodrigo Perez
- Rodrigo Perez
- Rodrigo Perez
- Rodrigo Perez
