GRAEME REVELL

Still haven't heard Red Planet The Saint and The Crow, but I was rather impressed with Eaters of the Dead. Most of his scores I really hate, except Negotiator and Riddick.

I also liked Out of Time which I totally forgot.

First off, Revell is the composer that made me become a film music fan, yep it was him and not Herrmann, Rozsa, Goldsmith or even Williams but Graeme Revell and it was his score to the Nicole Kidman film Dead Calm and I can`t believe that this score is still unreleased.

I must say that there are lots of soundtracks with just one or a couple of scorecues by him and several of those scoreselections are just really good. So I always battle with the "is it wort to buy a whole soundtrack with just a couple of minutes of score and the rest is worthless songs".

Some of the soundtracks with his few minutes of contribution is: From Dusk till Dawn, Idle Hands, The Big Hit, Bride of Chucky, The Insider and S.F.W. But there are a few that have little more score than those I already mentioned such as Open Water, Until the End of the World and Basketball Diaries

Dead Calm? Wow, i've never heard that one! How you you describe it? Any other's composer score that could be related to, or perhaps to one of his own works?

Red Planet was amazing... It really lifted the movie from a mainstream-scifimovie to an ethereal movie with - well - almost operatic moments... Great score! Emma Shaplin should be used more in scores! And Sting, but only if it is with A Thousand Years :P

A lot of people hate Revell's music. I can understand why. But for me... he's a guilty pleasure. I really enjoy most of his music. Titan AE, Pitch Black, Riddick, Under Siege, No Escape, The Crow, The Saint, Red Planet and Eaters of the Dead are all very enjoyable score imho.

Though he's done some baddies as well. Tomb Raider was put together so badly, I was pissin' myself with laughter.

Revell is scoring "Unthinkable" (taking over from Christopher Young).

I hold no hope for a good score onsidering his track record the passed few years, but we'll see.

I think so - it's darkly percussive and much more coherent than the first part. However, you need to like this sort of thing, since it's more monotonus in nature. The opening (City of Angels) is sensational, by the way.

Someone has pointed out Vin said on his Facebook the next Riddick film will start filming soon. I for one look forward to it. The first film was surprisingly good, the second was okay enough (not bad, but certainly not a science fiction master work), and Revell's scores for both films are favorites among the works I have heard by him. The second, "The Chronicles of Riddick", is more orchestral and big sounding (and it also brought back Riddick's theme, too).

If Revell is working on some dumbshit remake of some film from the '80's at that time, he should DUMP it and do this.

It's a prequal to Pitch Black which also starred Vin Deisel.

Is Twohy back as director?

indeed, it's a sequel, because the little girl in Pitch Black is all grown up in The Chronicles of Riddick

Still, I hope to see director and actor returning in this one, they made the first 2 films better

No, no!
He doesn't [spoiler]die! In fact, he is saved by Fry, but when the bounty hunters ask him where Riddick is, Riddick himself answers that "he died somewhere on the planet" (thereby presumably throwing them off his scent, and suggesting the start of a new life).[/spoiler]

Yeah, how could one confuse it? The very last scene in the movie is Riddick flying the skipper off the planet and into space. Kind of impressive for a DEAD GUY, no?