Spike Jonze states Arcade Fire's 'Supersymmetry' was originally written for his new film 'Her'

Spike Jonze has spoken out, confirming that the final song on The Arcade Fire's Reflektor "Supersymmetry" is also the closing credits song for his upcoming film Her.

The romantic/sci fi film stars Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. Apparently the track was originally written for the movie but was then later changed for the album, which Indie Wire presumes will make it ineligible for an Oscar.

Indie Wire quotes Jonze as he explained the relationship between the song and his film:

"The [band] was working on [their latest album Reflektor] as they were working on this," Jonze said about collaborating with the group on the film's soundtrack.during a post Q&A screening in L.A. recently (via Hitfix). "Win and I started talking about the score about two years ago, and then it kinda seemed like the record sort of informed the soundtrack and the soundtrack informed the record a little bit, and there's like a song on Reflektor - the last one, 'Supersymmetry' - that he wrote for the movie, but then it sort of became something else. It's actually the last song in the end credits."

Jonze went on to say:

"What Win and I started talking about in the beginning was just that we wanted the soundtrack to have this electricity to it, a current to it," he added, "but not to be electronic and not to...use synthesizers at all. For it not to feel synthetic, but to feel like hand-made, but still have an electricity to it, and also just to sort of play this sort of romance and love story and longing of Theodore."

Her will be released limitedly on Dec. 18 and will hit the screens elsewhere in the new year.

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Spike Jonze, Joaquin Phoenix, Arcade Fire