Charlie Kaufman has recruited Jon Brion to score his directorial debut, "Synecdoche, New York. " The two have sorta worked in the past. Brion scored "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind," which Kaufman wrote. Brion has also done scores for "I Heart Huckabees," "Magnolia," and "Punch Drunk Love." This is Kaufman's first shot at being a director. Spike Jonze was at the helm until he ditched the project to work on "Where The Wild Things Are."

Here's a synopsis of Kaufman's new flick courtesy of The Playlist:

Theater director Caden Cotard's (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) life in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele (Catherine Keener) has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive (Sadie Goldstein) with her. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel (Samantha Morton) has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his body's autonomic functions. Worried about the transience of his life, he moves his theater company to a warehouse in New York City. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside.

Sounds pleasantly weird enough.
[The Playlist]