Alexandre Desplat has taken over scoring duties on the upcoming drama The Imitation Game. The film is directed by Morten Tyldum (Headhunters) and stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Matthew Goode and Charles Dance. The movie follows a British mathematician and cryptographer who helped crack the German enigma code during the final years of World War II and was later prosecuted by the British government in the early 1950s for being a homosexual. Graham Moore has written the script based on the book Alan Turing: The Enigma. Teddy Schwarzman (All Is Lost) is producing the project with Nora Grossman and Ido Ostrowsky. As previously reported, Clint Mansell was originally attached to score the movie. The Imitation Game. Since our last update, The Imitation Game has been picked up by the Weinstein Company for a domestic release on November 21, 2014.
Sweet! I read the script a while back, great story. Looking forward to seeing how it turned out with such a talented director and cast. It set a record when it sold to Weinstein at Berlin for $7 million, incomplete, based on just some footage - must be impressive.
Weinstein clearly feels Desplat is his lucky charm, I remember reading a story in the trades of him personally asking Desplat to score My Week With Marilyn. And I also remember reading that he was behind Desplat's replacement score for The Queen. If he's a Desplat fan, he has good taste
Nathan Larson. I remember reading an article somewhere (or maybe I head on the DVD commentary), once Weinstein bought the film, he decided it could be made more mainstream with a more emotional score that would humanize The Queen. Anyway, it clearly worked, as it went on to Oscar and box office glory.
Desplat has only done three scores this year: Godzilla, The Imitation Game, and Unbroken.
Pretty light year if you ask me.
I don't know. The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Monuments Men (though this one may have been completed long before this year, as per the film being pushed back) might also count.
I don't know. The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Monuments Men (though this one may have been completed long before this year, as per the film being pushed back) might also count.
The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Monuments Me were recorded in 2013.
Desplat recorded The Grand Budapest Hotel and Monuments Men in last year's october. He wrote and recorded Godzilla between January and March, The Imitation Game between may and early june, and just finished to record Unbroken which it was written between august and early september (when he was serving as the president of Venice's Film Festival).
Also, he's currently scoring the new Jaguar commercials directed by Tom Hooper (he did one on February, where you can tell he was in Godzilla mode).
I think that Alexandre's flexibility comes on working for a few weeks in small projects that require 30-45 minutes of music, where he takes between two or three months to work in big ones that require more attention and between 80-120 minutes of music (Rise Of The Guardians, Godzilla, Harry Potter - Part 1 needed a lot of rewrites since Desplat was writing the score before the films's split point was changed and the original 100 minutes of music went to 200). Except for The Golden Compass, which it took 6 months to write and record given the extensive changes of the film (some cues from the CD belongs to original scenes that were cut).
Now that is a cover! Instantly the best I have seen on any new 2014 release aside from the artwork for the Guardians of the Galaxy "Awesome Mix" compilation.
1. The Imitation Game 2. Enigma 3. Alan 4. U-Boats 5. Carrots and Peas 6. Mission 7. Crosswords 8. Night Research 9. Joan 10. Alone with Numbers 11. The Machine Christopher 12. Running 13. The Headmaster 14. Decrypting 15. A Different Equation 16. Becoming a Spy 17. The Apple 18. Farewell to Christopher 19. End of War 20. Because of You 21. Alan Turing's Legacy
