Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds obviously have left their mark on music history. Now the Australian rocker, who has also penned a few books, is expanding his work to film.

Cave wrote the screen play for The Proposition, a film set in the late 1800s Australian outback. The plot has lead character Charlie Burns mulling the offer of a tough choice between either killing his murderous older brother or seeing his younger brother hang in the gallows for his own crimes. Cave personally recruited Australian actor Guy Pearce (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, L.A. Confidential and Memento) for the lead role.

Nick also made news recently by dissing the Red Hot Chili Peppers' latest release, Stadium Arcadium - even moving a saddened Flea, a Cave admirer, to blog about it on their site.

IMDB says Nick finished the script in about three weeks. Quite impressive. Well, lets see it first before we give him too much credit.