The New Coen Bros Movie Includes A Duet Between Justin Timberlake And Girls’ Adam Driver

The Cannes Film Festival, international meeting point of movie-biz glitz and glamour, is currently going through its second weekend, and the big news doesn’t stop coming.

Besides the bits where armed robbers escaped with $1.3 million worth of jewellery in “a daring pre-dawn heist“, and that other time a guy carrying a fake grenade and a starter pistol fired blank bullets into an audience who were gathered to hear Oscar winner Christoph Waltz speak, and that other time a high profile vice president of a Chinese film company had his luggage stolen straight outta his apartment, the most exciting news from this weekend’s festivities came during the screening of the Coen Bros new film, Inside Llewyn Davis, which, as well as starring perennial Coens favourite, John Goodman, reportedly features an original duet between your two smarmiest boyfriends: Justin Timberlake and Adam Driver of Girls.

The film, which also stars Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund and Driver’s Girls co-star Alex Karpovsky, is set amongst the coffeehouses of New York’s ’60s folk scene and comes across a bit like a music biz version of the Coen’s Barton Fink. But, as Vulture‘s Kyle Buchanan notes, the film’s most culturally relevant moment is a scene in which JT and Adam join forces (musically, not sexually) to deliver “a bouncy, proudly idiotic masterpiece called ‘Please Mr. Kennedy'”.

“Its lyrics are few, and they mostly go like this: “Please Mr. Kennedy / Don’t you shoot me into outer space” (repeat ad infinitum),” Buchanan explains. “Meanwhile, Adam Driver sticks his thick, gawky neck out, pulls some dopey faces, and adds sound effects at the end of each line. “Oww-oooot!” sings Adam Driver. “Uh-OH!” he yelps.”

Sounds incredible. Unfortunately, the movie isn’t released locally until January 30 next year, so you’ll, uh, just have to tide yourself over by dreaming about it or watching the trailer.