Sia To Write Original Songs For Upcoming Popstar Drama Starring Rooney Mara

Australian-born singer-songwriter Sia has been tapped to compose original songs for Vox Lux, an upcoming feature-length drama about a pop star, played by The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo actress Rooney Mara, navigating the 21st-century music industry.

Set over 15 years beginning in 1999, the Brady Corbet-directed feature follows Mara's character, Celeste, as she climbs her way up the celebrity ladder and engages with the major cultural tentpoles of the post-2000 era.

Vox Lux will be the second feature from 28-year-old Corbet, who made his full-length directorial debut last year with drama/horror flick The Childhood Of A Leader as well as having actually appeared in movies such as Melancholia, Martha Marcy May Marlene and Thirteen, among others.

As The Hollywood Reporter notes, Vox Lux will be produced by Killer Films' Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa as well as Brian Young, of Three Six Zero Entertainment.

The film is due to start production in February next year, with Kodak Motion Picture president Steve Bellamy buzzing of his director in a statement: "Brady is a young auteur almost without parallel".

"After such an amazing growth year for film in 2015 … we are doing everything we can to help find and nurture those next master craftsmen like Brady."

Whether this proves to be the next Citizen Kane remains to be seen, but here's hoping Vox Lux gets 2017 off to a stronger start for musical film and television than we saw this year, at any rate.