US Grammy winners Outkast have completed work on their first film, due for release in 2005. The film, which had the imaginative working titles of Speakerboxxx and Untitled Outkast Project will be called My Life In Idlewild, and no, it won’t be about the Scottish indie-rock band of the same name.

The film is a musical set in Prohibition-era American South, where Andre 3000 and Big Boi contend with gangstas who are after the duo’s nightclub. My Life In Idlewild was written and directed by longtime Outkast video producer Bryan Barber. Big Boi told MTV that the film will follow the double-life of 2003 album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, with him saying that the movie is “basically two stories going on at the same time.. Dre’s is like a love story.. mine is crazy, wild…”.

In addition, the band will compose the film’s soundtrack – meaning that commercial radio stations will have something else to play rather than Hey Ya!.

Outkast have also revealed that they plan to release a “return-to-roots” Outkast album in mid-2005, separate from the film. The album is tentatively titled 10 The Hard Way, and they plan to collaborate with Kate Bush on a couple of tracks. If Andre and Big Boi can recreate the dancing from Bush’s Babushka film clip, I’m all for it.

My Life In Idlewild will be released in early 2005.