Sigur Rós members produced a film that they really hate

Sigur Rós members Georg Holm and Orri Dyrason have taken responsibility for a car-crash of a movie, ‘The Three Dogateers Save Christmas’.

The film came out in 2014, and bassist Holm and drummer Dyrason have production credits. “Our dream was to get Chevy Chase to star in it,” Dyrason told The Grapevine. “You know, a Christmas movie with Chevy Chase—it can’t go wrong.”

“We were very stringent, pinching pennies at every opportunity,” he said, adding with remarkable honesty: “If you watch the movie, you’ll notice that the dogs’ mouths are sometimes obscured by strategically placed Christmas tree branches when they’re supposed to be talking—that’s because the budget for the animation software stuff that makes it look like the dogs’ mouths are moving in synch with the voice acting ran out, and we refused to raise it. There was lots of stuff like that going on.”

Amazing. He goes on: “It was an investment. We did it to make some money. It’s not as if we place any kind of meaning or importance in that film. We didn’t foster any artistic ambitions or anything like that. It’s a talking dog movie, you know. We just wanted to make some money, and we worked hard to meet our goal.”

Dyrason applied his movie experience to his day-job. “All of the sudden, I could sort of understand record company people. Those guys just want money, they don’t mean anything by anything—they don’t care about music—they just want to make money. And that’s great, because we need record companies that make money so people like me can focus on making music,” he said.

Watch a trailer for ‘The Three Dogateers’ below.