01/15/07 06:41 PM: Death Cab's Ben Gibbard turns actor

Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard has appeared on IMDB marking his first role in a feature film. The film, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, is based on a David Foster Wallace novel.

The adaptation, written and directed by John Krasinski (Jim Halpert on NBC’s The Office) is currently in production, for a release sometime this year.

I have not read Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, but from reviews I understand the basic gist of the novel is a woman interviewing various men in order to make sense of a recent breakup. Gibbard will be portraying “Harry,” though I do not know anything about that character. If you’ve read the book, please feel free to shed some light things.

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