Thom Yorke has written a song for New Moon, says Chris Weitz

Chris Weitz, who directs New Moon, the sequel to Twilight, said at Comic-Con in San Diego that Thom Yorke has written a new song for the film, which opens in American cinemas on 20 November. Weitz hasn't listened to it yet, but unless it's sounds of him belching, I think I'll put it in.¹

The criterion will still always be what's right for the movie at that given moment, but Thom Yorke is interested

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, Weitz said in an interview on 17 July, the week before Comic-Con. Since then Yorke has played new songs in public, in his solo set at Latitude in Suffolk last weekend.

Radiohead were in Twilight too: “15 Step” played over its end credits, though it was not on the film's chart-topping soundtrack album. Most of the music in New Moon will be newly written, around a score by Alexandre Desplat. Bon Iver's Justin Vernon is writing a song for it too, and Weitz is still hoping to get Kings of Leon. He says he picks the songs selfishly, from artists he and the cast and crew love.