MARCO BELTRAMI

It's nice to see Trumpp getting credited now, considering he wrote practically half of Die Hard 4.

Why did Trumpp write half of Die Hard 4?

I would do if I knew him! I guess what I'm really interested in is whether he came on board for an artistic reason, or if it was just a case of Beltrami not having time to do it all himself, or maybe having to rewrite some stuff quickly because his original versions weren't liked by the filmmakers. I guess a similar question applies to Buck Sanders and his involvement in Max Payne.

Sanders worked on the synthesizer for many Beltrami scores. Max Payne is a score that requires heavy electronic manipulation, which is probably why he's credited as co-composer.

KNOWING
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Music Composed by Marco Beltrami

Nicolas Cage

Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in KNOWING, a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future — and sets out to prevent them from coming true.

In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead.

Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule’s contents and the girl’s cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler. But it is Caleb’s father, professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage), who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. As Ted further unravels the document’s chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional events — the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve Ted and his son. When Ted’s attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try to prevent more destruction from taking place.

KNOWING is the latest film from acclaimed director Alex Proyas, who created the stylish sci-fi classics The Crow, I, Robot and Dark City.

The apocalyptic score is by Marco Beltrami.

Summit Entertainment opens KNOWING nationwide on March 20.

Varèse Sarabande Catalog #: 302 066 956 2
Release Date: 03/17/0

Hmmmm? That word was used for that pile of generic rubbish Constantine.

Like I said... pinch of salt... but it IS Beltrami, which gives hope.

Audio clips from Knowing:

http://www.colosseum.de/product_info.ph … owing.html

Oscar-nominated composer Marco Beltrami recently recorded his score to the upcoming futuristic thriller Repossession Mambo. The sessions were held at the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox, and ScoringSessions.com is excited to bring our readers the exclusive photos!

http://www.scoringsessions.com

Enjoy!

Nice review, Jon.

Where did it receive negative responses? I think you'll find that Beltrami's score was generally well received.

Fair enough. Though it was still quite well received in general, particularly on forums.

I know that. In fact, if you see his reviews for scores like Congo, Spirit: Stallion of Cimaron, Dead Man's Chest etc were negative, he gave one or two stars. That was totally unfair. What do you say?

I agree but as a critic, he should give some credit to composers, especially for their hard works and sincere attempts. Is it not?

I,Robot is my second favourite Beltrami score after Die Hard 4. Considering he wrote I,Robot in two weeks as well is incredibly impressive.