According to bassist Pete Wentz, horror blockbuster Cloverfield is based on Fall Out Boy's latest album Infinity On High.
At the premiere of the movie, Cloverfield writer Drew Goddard apparently gushed to Wentz that the whole film was inspired by Fall Out Boy.
"Basically, I went to the premiere and Drew came up to me. He said the only thing he listened to when he was writing the movie was Infinity On High," Wentz wrote in his online blog. "I thought he was just being nice or blowing smoke up my ass, but we were huge fans of his writing on Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Lost, so we kept talking.
"He went on to cite specific songs. He mostly boiled it down to [Fall Out Boy song] The Take Over, The Break's Over, and my mind was blown," Wentz raved. "He said you could sync Infinity and Cloverfield up, like Pink Floyd and The Wizard Of Oz. I was like 'Are you serious?' and then he said, 'Well, you probably couldn't, but if we watched it together I could do it for you.' "
"He pointed to some of the lines specifically, mostly on The Take Over, The Break's Over. It's interesting to see someone else's interpretation of your songs. If you get a chance, check out the movie. And keep your eyes open at the end."
To be blunt, this sounds like a whole heap of bullshit to us, and let's not forget that the Pink Floyd / Wizard Of Oz connection is merely an urban myth. MTV News tracked down Goddard and, predictably, the writer has shot Wentz's ramblings down in flames.
"I was playing their album the whole time while writing Cloverfield," says Goddard. "I don't want to undercut the idea that the movie was inspired by Fall Out Boy's album, but it was just that the album came out at the same time as I was writing the script, and the way I work, I need music on in the background, and I was playing it, so it was inspiring in that sense, so I told them it was inspiring.
"There may have been confusion as far as the movie being inspired by it - and I did mention the whole Pink Floyd / Wizard Of Oz thing, because I bet you would see some crazy shit there - but it certainly was not a track-by-track plan."
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