Photo by Kathryn Yu

The Playlist reports (and a publicist confirms) that Sigur Rós frontman and solo artist Jónsi will score We Bought a Zoo, the forthcoming film from Almost Famous/Say Anything director Cameron Crowe. Based on Benjamin Mee's memoir, the film stars Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, and Elle Fanning. (Elle Fanning is apparently in pretty much everything these days.) It opens December 23.Crowe has a history with Sigur Rós; as the Playlist points out, he previously licensed their music for the 2001 sci-fi mindfuck Vanilla Sky. As Thompson on Hollywood reports, at the TV Critics Press Tour (where Crowe was promoting his new Pearl Jam documentary), Crowe said that he played their music a lot on the We Bought a Zoo shoot. He said, "It was a music-filled experience. Matt Damon loves Sigur Rós. We played some of the music on his first day on set, and he said, 'Keep it coming man, keep it coming.'"

Judging by the cast and the Oscar-friendly release date, We Bought a Zoo could turn out to be Jónsi's Hollywood breakthrough, the same way the score for The Social Network was for Trent Reznor. On the other hand, Crowe's last narrative feature was the fucking abysmal Elizabethtown, so maybe not.

Below, check out a video of Jónsi performing "Go Do" at the Wiltern in L.A.