Gutterdämmerung

A number of singers known for their loud mouths will appear in a film that producers are billing as "the loudest silent movie on earth." Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins, Grace Jones and Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes have all been announced as stars in Gutterdämmerung, filmmaker Björn Tagemose's concert-film hybrid, which will find a live rock band and narrator providing the movie's score at screenings.

Pop will play the renegade angel Vicious, who sets the world on fire to test humanity, according to the movie's website. Rollins, who also serves as the film's co-screenwriter, will portray a "priest Svengali." Jones portrays the "ultimate nemesis, an African goddess from Hell." And Hughes will appear as a bounty hunter who "kills sound for money," working for people who "use false morality as oppression." The film will also feature appearances by Tuesday Cross, an adult-film actress who plays bass in an all-female group called Tight, and actress Olivia Vinall, who will play the movie's heroine.

"The film is sent in a world where God has saved the world by taking from mankind the Devil's 'Grail of Sin' - the Evil Guitar," Tagemose has said of the plot, according to Metal Hammer. "From Heaven a punk-angel, Vicious, looks upon the world with weary eyes. He sends the Devil's guitar back to Earth - and sin returns to mankind. An evil puritan priest, Rollins, manipulates a naive girl into retrieving the guitar to destroy it. On her quest she's forced to face the world's most evil rock-&-roll bastards. She has a rival in the form of a rock chick, determined to stop her."