In 2008, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne released “Christmas on Mars,” a supremely odd, seven-years-in-the-making DIY film about isolation and madness (or something). Despite the fact that the incredibly prolific Coyne managed to create two stellar albums in 2009 (Embryonic and the full-length cover of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon), he wants to keep busy. He told Billboard that he was planning his next movie, and he’s really looking to get some star power this time around.

“I’m in the process of begging Justin Timberlake to be part of it,” Coyne said. “If I’m lucky I’ll be able to wear him down in another year.” It’s part of a larger push to get some big stars into the new project, which doesn’t have a title but does have a much simpler scope as far as sets go. “My only goal was that I didn’t have to build space station-looking sets every time I wanted to have someone say something, only because I built those sets myself every time we shot something for ‘Christmas on Mars’ over the seven years we took to make it,” he explained. “This one is set in someone’s house and in a back yard and in a slaughterhouse; all those are available to me right here, so I don’t have to build everything this time.”

It would be insane to speculate what might be going on in Coyne’s head as far as film ideas go, though we can only hope that he wants Timberlake to play a butcher of some sort. In fact, if JT does sign on, it would be the latest in a line of steadily improving film roles for him. Here are the five best Timberlake film roles, in order of greatness.

source: MTV