Read today, in the London Guardian, that scribe Aaron Sorkin, the guy who brought us Sportsnight, the West Wing, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, is turning the brilliant Flaming Lips CD, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, into a Broadway musical.

This is exciting news, as it would bring together two very creative minds in Sorkin and Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne.

Coyne was quoted in the Guardian article as saying that the story of the musical will be something like this:

There’s the real world and then there’s this fantastical world. This girl, the Yoshimi character, is dying of something. And these two guys are battling to come visit her in the hospital. And as one of the boyfriends envisions trying to save the girl, he enters this other dimension where Yoshimi is this Japanese warrior and the pink robots are an incarnation of her disease. It’s almost like the disease has to win in order for her soul to survive. Or something like that.

The publicity photo above, of Coyne and bandmates Michael Ivins (in the shades) and Steven Drozd, was taken by J. Michelle Martin.

The photo below was taken (by, if my Spanish is any good at all, Xavier Mercade) during the 2006 edition of the Estrella Damm Primavera Sound music festival which is held annually in Barcelona, and conveys perfectly the bizarre and whimsical sensibility that you’ll experience at a Flaming Lips live show. They are marvelous.