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Director Peter Jackson has dropped the score for his remake of King Kong and hired a new composer - just seven weeks before the film is due to premiere. Jackson has called in a replacement for Howard Shore, who did the soundtrack for his Lord of the Rings trilogy. The director said he took the decision because he had "differing creative aspirations" from his friend Shore. Composer James Newton Howard, whose work includes The Sixth Sense, will take over the project Source: BBC Wow, i thought after LOTR that howard shore would be composing all of Jacksons scores. |
Pete Jackson drops Howard Shore as King Kong composer
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Wrobel 88 posts
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Hicksy 2,677 posts
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Registered 18 years agoouch!
not much time to pull a new ST out the bag! o_o
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Kronos 794 posts
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Registered 19 years agohopefully this will mean there won't be continual music for every second of the film like in LOTR trilogy. -
MikeD 10,063 posts
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Registered 18 years agoKronos wrote:
hopefully this will mean there won't be continual music for every second of the film like in LOTR trilogy.
dum dum - dum dum - dum dum dum.
Yeah, it got a bit tiring..gif)
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Khab 6,583 posts
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Registered 20 years agoCrispyXUK wrote:
So no Elfman score for Spiderman 3
that'll feel different
...although Elfman's POINT is that it probably won't..gif)
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silentbob 29,527 posts
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Registered 19 years agoI have mixed feelings about the Shore / Jackson split. I loved the LOTR soundtrack, I felt it was probably one of the most complete and well matched piece I've ever heard. But Shore is certainly not one that I would associate with contemporary, tension building scores which I suspect is required for King Kong.
Re Elfman. I've said so many times before that I feel he is the most overrated composer in the industry. More than every other composer that I know of, his scores sound almost identical in EVERY movie. Spiderman 1 + 2 were much the poorer for it as well. Hopefully the new composer can come up with something that is as powerful as the recent Hans Zimmer composed Batman Begins (which was actually better thn the movie it accompanied).
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Chris_C 458 posts
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Registered 20 years agoFurbs, nice one on that interview! I just spent the last hour clicking on the interviews the guys has done.
An extremely damning interview on Sam. Even if half of the things he's said was true, then it explained why spiderman 2 just felt so wrong.
Bob, Elfman was complaining that Sam forced him to follow every single cue on the temp score - often material that's taken out of spiderman 1, so I don't think it's fair to blame Elfman on the sameness of spiderman 2 if his allegations were true. -
silentbob 29,527 posts
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Registered 19 years agoChris_C wrote:
I think you misunderstand me. I was having a general go at the quality of Elfman's scores. He seems content with recycling the same old tempo's and BLOODY CHORAL pieces ad infinitum.
Bob, Elfman was complaining that Sam forced him to follow every single cue on the temp score - often material that's taken out of spiderman 1, so I don't think it's fair to blame Elfman on the sameness of spiderman 2 if his allegations were true.
All I mean is that it could well be a good thing that he won't be onboard for S3! -
Hicksy wrote:
It's here already! \o/
ouch!
not much time to pull a new ST out the bag! o_o
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Spanky 15,037 posts
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Registered 18 years agosilentbob wrote:
I feel the same way, everything he's done since batman has been recycled in the most part(although Dick Tracys soundtrack was very very good, not the madonna one mind). He should be ashamed of his spiderman theme, it's completely banal.
All I mean is that it could well be a good thing that he won't be onboard for S3! -
terminalterror 18,932 posts
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Registered 20 years agosilentbob wrote:
I have mixed feelings about the Shore / Jackson split. I loved the LOTR soundtrack, I felt it was probably one of the most complete and well matched piece I've ever heard. But Shore is certainly not one that I would associate with contemporary, tension building scores which I suspect is required for King Kong.
His score for Panic Room worked very well and that is all about tension building. -
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Furbs 45,740 posts
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Registered 18 years agoThats nothing...you should read this interview by Danny Elfman when he tears Sam Raimi apart...
ELFMAN: Sam was not there.
He was there, but he was not the Sam that I knew. As you said, I’ve known Sam for almost 15 years. It was my fifth movie with him and all I can say is that the person who was there at the end of Spider-Man 2 was not Sam. I don’t know who it was, but it wasn’t Sam. It was as close to living out Invasion of the Body Snatchers, as I’ve ever experienced. There’s a lot of micro-managers out there. Tim’s a micro-manager musically in his own way and there’s moments where he’ll get real obsessive over like a certain cue. But we work it out. Never in 20 years have I come across a situation where I couldn’t work it out. For a director to be a micro-manager is nothing new. If anything I would say most of them are. But to get to the level where you don’t need a composer, you just need a musical arranger to adapt note for note as close as possible. There’s nothing for me to do as a composer here.
DRE: Would you work with Sam again?
ELFMAN: Not if I can help it.
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Please note, the link IS safe for work, although its on suicidegirls.com which has some pics of nekkid goth chicks if you follow other links. -
I wonder if the game uses music from Howard Shore? I'd imagine its too late to change it in game now...
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