“There’s these people out there that I like, and you hope someday that you’d work with them,” Mothersbaugh, a sometime rock star and longtime film composer, said in a recent phone interview.
After seeing “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” a charming comedy from New Zealand about a crotchety old guy (Sam Neill) who takes his foster child (Julian Dennison) into the wilderness to avoid authorities, Mothersbaugh put the director, Taika Waititi, on his list.
“I was really impressed with the way he used music in that film,” Mothersbaugh said.