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Lou Reed and Metallica

Lou Reed and Metallica

Darren Aronofsky Directs Lou Reed and Metallica Video

by Paul Cashmere on November 4, 2011

in News

Award winning film director Darren Aronofsky, best known for the movies ‘Black Swan’ and ‘The Wrestler’ will direct the video for ‘Iced Honey’ from the Lou Reed & Metallica album ‘Lulu’.

Lou Reed and Metallica

Lou Reed and Metallica

Lou will head to the Metallica home turf of San Francisco to shoot the clip with Aronofsky in the Bay Area.

“I have loved Darren Aronofsky since he did ‘Pi’,” said Lou Reed in a statement. “I hope I can be his next Black Swan.”

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich adds, “As if making a record with Lou Reed is not enough….. now I get to make a video with Darren Aronofsky, who has been among my very favorite filmmakers since his first movie, ‘Pi.’ This is turning into a monumental chapter in the on-going saga entitled “Lars Ulrich…living the dream!!!”

‘Lulu’ is the first ever collaboration album between Lou Reed and Metallica. It features a set of extended songs inspired by German expressionist Frank Wedekind’s early 20th century plays Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box, and were a rewrite of Edgar Allan Poe’s, The Raven, which emerged as a graphic novel on Fantagraphics Press.

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