Academy Award-nominated and multiple-Emmy award winning playright Aaron Sorkin has signed on to write a musical adaptation of The Flaming Lips's beloved 2002 album, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots.

In a recent Entertainment Weekly interview, Wayne Coyne, lead singer of the Flaming Lips, confirmed the story and, regarding Sorkin's participation, noted:

Maybe that means they'll need to build a stage with lots of hallways on it. It will be a giant tube that's always moving!'.
The musical's debut is likely years off, and details of the plot aren't specific yet. Coyne does compare the plot to Terry Gilliam's classic film, Brazil, and explains:

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.'

We'll be hearing that this is being completed in time for the 10 year anniversary of the record.

The Flaming Lips are cool, but wouldn't we all be more interested in them being a kick ass rock band that wrote awesome songs again.

or something like that

The Flaming Lips are cool, but wouldn't we all be more interested in the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of the Chinese Democracy stage musical?