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PROMETHEUS - Ridley Scott. Marc Streitenfeld.
OF ALL the forthcoming films in 2012, none excites me more than Ridley Scott's ALIEN prequel PROMETHEUS. The official trailer for PROMETHEUS has been released on YouTube and iTunes and it looks great! I really want to see the movie, even though I acknowledge it probably will scare the crap out of me. However, the fact that the score is by Marc Streitenfeld gives me pause. Now I am aware that I may be doing the guy a great injustice here, but Streitenfeld strikes me as just another Hans Zimmer protege/clone, and his music for ROBIN HOOD (Ridley Scott's last film) did not exactly blow my socks off. I am very aware that I am giving my opinion on a composer and a score that I have not even heard yet and a film that has not been released yet. So do please feel free to shoot me down in flames and tell me I'm wrong about Streitenfeld if that is what you believe. However, I think JERRY GOLDSMITH's original ALIEN score is a masterpiece and if it were up to me I would have a prominent film composer try and rework Goldsmith's original ALIEN score for the new film (in the same way that Elmer Bernstein reworked and adapted Bernard Herrmann's score for CAPE FEAR in 1992.) Or, I think the perfect composer for an ALIEN score would be HOWARD SHORE. Not the HOWARD SHORE when he was in his Lord Of The Rings mode, but the HOWARD SHORE who wrote scary and deeply disturbing scores for SE7EN, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, DEAD RINGERS and THE FLY. I think SHORE would be a great candidate for PROMETHEUS. I just don't think Streitenfeld is up to the job. That's just MY opinion. What do YOU THINK?
Best wishes
Danny.
DannyBowes, January 17, 2012; 9:40 AM
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I think Steve Jablonsky would be a good substitute for Goldsmith. I was amazed by his music for Your highness. That was as if Goldsmith was working again at sometimes. That score should be nominated for an Oscar by the way. I am also looking forward to Prometeus. The trailer is indeed great. And Ridley Scott is one of the best.
Best wishes,
Sijbold
s.tonkens, January 18, 2012; 11:29 AM
Film composers are doomed, thanks to Zimmer's acolytes (and Zimmer himself)
His "cheap" "fast" "effectist" and boring scores reduced the budget of soundtracks to almost nothing.
Why will those lame studios in bollywood spend $1.000.000 in a superb soundtrack if the market is reduced to sell in 20 years around 5.000 copies??
They pay $100.000 to Zimmer and his students, and you have a boring repetitive score. And that's it.
Later you get a 1500-3000 copies edition by Lala or Intra, and that's it.
Soundtracks proven to be a macro-business failure. But is all basically Bollywood's fault.
They repeated formulas not by their value, but just for the fact it worked before.
What I mean is, for example, when Prince wrote BATMAN's soundtrack album, it was a major hit, but because the songs were GOOD (and I don't like Prince music, but the fact remains that album is great).
The "soundtrack" song album worked? Next time you have a bunch of low life bands making songs filling a whole CD (for example, Spiderman) with bands you have no idea, songs which are pure CRAP, and laughable high prices.
They wanted to recreate the formula, but using "cheaper" materials.
Prince album was based on the movie, was made by a popular artist and the music has melodic references to the Elfman theme.
If you listen the new "song albums" for the blockbusters, most songs are just cheap ways to promote boring and useless bands. Their songs have nothing to do with the movie. (remember the lame re-make of Kashmir by Page in the Godzilla movie?)
USA business people is crying about China making clones of their products with less quality, but seems the blind is crying about the one-eyed!
nicolas28, January 18, 2012; 5:18 PM
And BTW, I would have wanted one of the old school composers to do the soundtrack :
1st - Morricone (No need to mention the excellent work in The Thing)
2nd - Debney
3rd - John Murphy (the one that probably will adapt best to Ridley's ideas)
nicolas28, January 18, 2012; 5:23 PM
Wrong, wrong, wrong...if you had read anything on IMDB or elsewhere, you would know that PROMETHEUS is no longer a direct prequel to ALIEN. That information is all over the web...it was originally going to be a direct prequel, but then they decided to make it a wholly original story on its own. Although it does take place in the same universe (not the same time period, however), and supposedly does reference Alien, it is NOT a prequel to that movie...and therefore would have been wrong to use any of Goldsmith's score in the new movie.
kriegerg69, January 19, 2012; 12:24 AM
Buzzkill.
weavercp, January 20, 2012; 1:38 AM
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