HENRY JACKMAN

Did anyone notice that IMDB has Jackman listed as the composer for Disney's upcoming "Wreck-it Ralph"? No idea if its legit info or not, but that could be a great opportunity for Jackman to showcase his talents in a bigger and more epic way than usual. Or they could go the route of grungy loopy crap...we'll see.

Are you suggesting that Newman's score was recorded?

Oh, I completely missed that, I guess 'cause I had no idea what the film was. Sorry Justin, thanks for the info

I really want to hear another Newman score for an animated feature. Despite his inexperience in the genre, he's clearly very good at it and his style lends well to them.

He's certainly demonstrated that he can handle any score with aplomb. I enjoyed his score for Finding Nemo, more so than Wall-E.

In regard to Henry Jackman, I hope the guy won't be ask to do a John Powell riff again, like he had to do for Puss in Boots.

Meh.

I'm sure you'd feel this way about Henry Jackman's appointment, but I feel that I wouldn't be missing much. I'd be more interested in hearing what David Newman would come up. His Ice Age score was very unique and touching.

Only if James Horner came up with every Spanish musical cliches.....

Of course not -- I wouldn't feel that way about any composer I don't care for the works of. That's a silly statement.

David Newman? I don't know. His all over the place Scooby scores, which reportedly get worse with each sequel, don't really make me appreciate a film that will probably have some fast action for video game lands.
Plus, it seems he's not taking assignments anymore. The last film I know him on was "LOL", which was rejected before recording (demo score only). I theorize that Brian Levant had taken over as director of the now shelved "Vanilla Gorilla" -- which was already filmed, and that he probably had Newman do a score, but we'll never know (likewise we'll probably never know if Warbeck did his for the previous director).

Unless he gets "A Christmas Story 2", all's quiet on the western front.

The Edit Fairy has paid my above post a visit. Tinkle! Tinkle!

Come on... even the opening cues are pretty much identical. The theme is a bastardized version of Horner's... which I think was Alfred Newman's or Miklos Rozsa's anyway.

It's a bloody entertaining score, don't get me wrong, but the temp track is so obvious!

-Erik-

Ummm... it has nothing to do with believing... theme rip offs are a fact and they happen a lot!

As for The Edge and The Time Machine... I know for a fact that the film was temped with Goldsmith's score.

-Erik-

I could never listen to Puss in Boots without thinking of Horner's Zorro, precisely because of what you say - it's not just the melody that's similar, but the harmonic language is identical, the tonal language, even the rhythm. It's a blatant rip off, and not just the theme.

Horner's Zorro theme is itself clearly very heavily influenced by Rozsa's El Cid march, but the harmonic language is changed completely so it sounds like Horner rather than Rozsa.

Maybe its because I only own Legend of Zorro and not the original one?

I thought it was a very nice movie with a pleasant score!