With a film of their very own released online last week, it seems the Arcade Fire's Win Butler is feeling a bit more share-y when it comes to discussing the band's other cinematical endeavours.

If you set your way-back machine to this past spring, you may remember hearing some reports about how Arcade Fire was attached to score the next film from Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly. Kids everywhere, particularly those who shop exclusively at Urban Outfitters, were squealing over this convergence of indie awesomeness -- until Butler himself took to his blog to deny those claims.

"[J]ust to let you all know that (internet-based fact checking aside) Arcade Fire is NOT doing the soundtrack to any film," Butler wrote in May, going on to say that maybe -- but only maybe -- he, Arcade Fire's Regine Chassagne and Owen "Final Fantasy" Pallet "may do an instrumental piece or two for Richard Kelly's new movie." But he insisted there was nothing more to the reports, and they would only do a song or two if they could peel themselves away from reading books and watering houseplants.

Well, it turns out that scamp was just messing with us. In a new interview with Pitchfork, Butler let slip that he, Chassagne and Pallett have in fact composed the entire score for Kelly's The Box, a sci-fi flick based on an old Twilight Zone episode.

"It's kind of Hitchcocky movie, orchestral, Mellotron stuff. It's instrumental music. No songs. It's interesting," he explained. "We didn't really think we were going to do the whole thing, and then it just kind of was easier once we got in. It was like, 'Oh well, we'll just keep going.'"

Butler says he took to project because he was drawn to the movie's '70s sci-fi feel. The film -- which stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden -- is about a married couple who come into the possession of a mysterious box. The box contains a button that, if pressed, will land its bearer $1 million, but will also cause the death of a complete stranger.

"It was just really easy to imagine the type of music that would help the movie. It was a very ego-less project," he said.

Although The Box isn't expected in theatres until late 2009, there's a good chance we'll be hearing Arcade Fire's movie score before we get a new album. Butler confirmed with Pitchfork that the band has been writing new material, but after five years of hard touring, they're taking it (more or less) easy.

"I mean, I don't think any of us want to spend three years making a record," he says. "But after the whole wild ride the last five years, I think it's been super healthy for us to just stay at home, tend our gardens, and actually have a real life. You can feel that in the music now. And fucking hell, what a crazy time to be living in. I think we're all really excited."

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