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Hollywood is too busy hiring Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Ramin Djawadi, apparently.
Cause with his dozen films a year, Reznor is indeed stealing work from other composers.
Anyway, considering their style is pretty similar to Zimmer's, it's pretty surprising Mark Mancina, Nick Glennie-Smith and also Trevor Rabin aren't scoring that many films.
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Maybe it has something to do with the fact that these composers have been paid huge money in the hundreds of thousands per project and don't HAVE to work like the rest of us do.
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Jul 31, 2013 - 1:27 PM
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LeHah
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I am not an industry person, I am not a professional and I am (sadly) not a "real friend" to anyone famous. But I can answer some of these "Where Are They Now" questions. I won't say how and you're welcome to ignore my words but, this is what I heard.
* Don Davis is deeply talented but also a bit hard to work with. He grew frustrated with how the industry treats him and music and has basically walked away from Hollywood (but also did orchestration work on Toy Story 3, which seems to me as a favor)
* Elliot Goldenthal's situation is pretty well described by Thor. I do have a mutual friend of sorts who said that Elliot is still working and still writing his usual stuff - but "reading between the lines", it comes off more as "he can still write like he use to, just not at the speeds that most films would demand."
* I don't know anyone whos ever worked with Trevor Jones but I do know that he's got a ... Herrmannesque personality. I mean that in the kindest way, as they're both deeply talented men. However, Jones got into a bit of legal trouble when his neighbors sued him to take down the wind turbines powering his house and he more or less to them to get stuffed. Though it certainly doesn't prove his person, it might give you an idea of his character.
* John Corigliano would probably work more in film if he was asked more often. And lets face it: producers aren't knocking on his door for being the guy behind Altered States or Revolution.
* Bill Conti, who is one of my favorites, reminds me a great deal of an old adage: don't be the secretary that has complete loyalty to their boss, because when the boss gets fired, your ass is going too. And though Bill is talented as you can get, he attached himself to other people whos careers have died out (Alvidson being the obvious one) and in the town of "not what you know but WHO you know", well, thems the breaks.
*Graeme Revell has more or less retired from music and has been working on screenplays. I don't know whats come of that though.
*David Newman's career I don't understand. The man can do anything and he gets very little. Ditto David Arnold.
On the other hand, to prove that I may be out of synch, David Shire was notoriously uninterested in returning to film, but David Fincher begged and pleaded several times for him to come back to do Zodiac... so, I could very well be entirely wrong.
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Amram was posed to make a major comeback. At one point in 2009 he had three films scores coming:
"Chickadee"
"Visions of Paradise"
"Crashing Wall Street"
Since then the first one has been shelved (or post poned with no year release announced), the second the same thing, and the third has been delayed years.
David Newman has two scoring projects coming soon though (I think both are now recorded):
the CGI "Tarzan"
and "Behaving Badly"
It appears he's concentrating more on concert work and other miscellaneous projects.
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You know, I jsut went over to his site and he has a new project:
He is currently scoring the new holiday movie "A Friggin Christmas Miracle" starring Robin Williams.
We're actually getting a new score by Edelman. It's a friggin' miracle.
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I forgot to mention Teddy Castellucci. He was one of the busiest comedy composers in Hollywood and hasn`t scored a film since 2010. It really would be interesting to find out why all of a sudden super busy composers stop getting assignments.
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And what about Klaus Badelt?
Someone covered this in another thread last week but he's become persona non grata in Hollywood, supposedly over fighting for credit for his work on Gladiator.
He has done some stellar work, particularly Rescue Dawn and The Promise.
Badelt is composing the music for a lot of movies in Europe.
Cheers!
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SBD:
And David Newman's scoring GODS BEHAVING BADLY? (I guess George S. Clinton's work didn't pan out?) Now, I want to see that movie even more. I mean, Christopher Walken as Zeus? This could be the worst movie ever made and I'd still be there with bells on.
Sorry, I meant "Behaving Badly", a different film.
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