LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy Launches Acting Career With 'The Comedy'

Posted on Dec 2nd 2011 1:30PM by Theo Spielberg
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At age 22 James Murphy was offered a job to write for the then little-known television comedy 'Seinfeld.' He turned the job down to pursue a music career. While we're all thankful that he went with music, Murphy has continued his dalliance with the entertainment industry along the way. He composed the music for the Noah Baumbach film 'Greenberg' in 2010, and now that LCD Soundsystem is broken up, it looks like the backbone of DFA has set his sights on acting.

According to the Fader, Murphy will co-star with Tim Heidecker of 'Tim and Eric's Awesome Show, Great Job!' in 'The Comedy,' a film which takes "a scathing look at the white male on the verge of collapse," who "whiles away his days with a group of aging Brooklyn hipsters, engaging in acts of recreational cruelty and pacified boredom." Murphy will play one of the aforementioned "aging Brooklyn hipsters."

The film was written and directed by Rick Alverson and produced by record label JagJaguwar in conjunction with Greyshack Films and Glass Eye Pix, and has been accepted into next year's Sundance Film Festival. Are you excited to see Mr. LCD play someone very similar to himself?

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