All that punctuation is meant to show that we are both excited and slightly vexed by the news that Richard Kelly’s newest film, The Box, will be scored by the indie band The Arcade Fire.

We’re excited because it’s The Arcade Fire. Both Funeral and Neon Bible were running soundtracks to our own lives at certain points in time (we’d say the first EP, but we’re not up our own asses enough to lie to you).

We’re vexed because it’s Richard Kelly’s The Box, which has looked, thus far, to be little more than a Twilight Zone episode with Cameron Diaz and James Marsden. And we haven’t seen Southland Tales, but we keep running across it playing in small underground theaters that seat 25 people.

It seems the news was actually confirmed awhile ago, but on a place where no one was looking for it, the personal website of producer/engineer Markus Dravs:

… having finished Coldplay’s forthcoming album Viva LaVida - now off to Canada to work with Arcade Fire on a soundtrack for the forthcoming Richard Kelly film.

Kelly himself tried to drop a hint last week in the middle of disavowing his involvement with the Donnie Darko sequel, S.Darko:

”We’re starting to work with a very famous band who is honoring us with being the first fillmmakers they’ve ever scored a film with.”

The Box is about Marsden and Diaz as a married couple who have a mysterious box arrive at their door. Inside the box is a button. If they push the button, they could get $1 million dollars, but someone will die…

“…The police disco lights
Now the neighbors can dance!
The police disco lights
Now the neighbors can dance!”