Imagine the rollercoasters: cinema's king of whimsy, Wes Anderson, is planning to build a theme park with musical collaborator Mark Mothersbaugh.
Mothersbaugh, who also fronts the band Devo and is a visual artist, has scored four of Anderson's most iconic films: his debut feature Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou.
In the foreword to his new art book published this week, Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia, Anderson wrote that he hoped to work with Mothersbaugh on a new project entirely.
"I hope to soon secure the means to commission the construction of an important and sizeable theme park to be conceived and designed entirely by Mark Mothersbaugh," Anderson said. "For 40 years he has set about creating a body of work which amounts to his own Magic Kingdom, where the visitor is amused and frightened, often simultaneously."
Anderson's work has already ventured outside the cinema, with a book, The Wes Anderson Collection, released last year.
His most recent film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, which starred Ralph Fiennes and Tilda Swinton, was his biggest live-action success in the UK to date, reaching number one at the box office.
In his five-star review of the film, Telegraph film critic Tim Robey said, "Anderson doesn’t milk nostalgia, in the misty-eyed old Hollywood mode, but turns it on its head. We find ourselves situated in a roomy and delectable vision of the past, feeling oddly nostalgic for the present."
While Anderson states the creative design will be wholly Mothersbaugh's, we must surely hold out for the inevitable Bill Murray cameo.
