Perfect combination

The decision to pick rock singer-songwriter Liang Long to do the music for his latest film has paid off for filmmaker Ning Hao

When Chinese filmmaker Ning Hao invited rock singer-songwriter Liang Long to write the movie soundtrack for his new movie, Crazy Alien, last summer, he was taking a gamble.

"Have you written music for movies before?" Ning asked Liang. "Not much," said Liang, whose only previous experience was that he had written music for the indie movie, Youth, by director Geng Jun, about a decade earlier.