I am hoping Bear McCreary will be too busy on other projects and turns this down if he is offered the job. He is a great composer, but he is already doing too much for TV and I am hoping for a new voice, since it is a new series. He is becoming the Zimmer of TV.
I am hoping Bear McCreary will be too busy on other projects and turns this down if he is offered the job. He is a great composer, but he is already doing too much for TV and I am hoping for a new voice, since it is a new series. He is becoming the Zimmer of TV.
Ah, No....
His has been IMHO outstanding on the various shows he works on.
As for STAR TREK, Unless there isn't any $$$ at all, I'll be honest and tell you that turning it town would go against the man's DNA.
I am hoping Bear McCreary will be too busy on other projects and turns this down if he is offered the job. He is a great composer, but he is already doing too much for TV and I am hoping for a new voice, since it is a new series. He is becoming the Zimmer of TV.
That's a baffling thing to say. While you can always tell that a score is written by McCreary (he has a very individual voice), he tries new things in every project. Furthermore, fully orchestral space epic would be a new sound for him. Only Human Target really gets close to that approach. BSG only very rarely used a full orchestra.
I'm a huge, huge fan of what Bear McCreary did for "Battlestar Galactica" and "Caprica," but credit also has to be given to Ron Moore, who allowed the music to take chances and sometimes take center stage. I'll follow McCreary anywhere, but he has not been given that kind of license on some other projects. (For instance, his music for "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." is quite good, but rarely gets a chance to shine in the way whole segments of "Galactica" would allow him -- the show just isn't built that way.)
If I recall correctly the producers who hired him I'm told were replaced by new producers who needed to cut the budget of the show and the first thing they went after was the music.
Such is life in Hollywood.
Ford A. Thaxton
That would be the easiest thing to cut, yeah. I'm not sure if Bear was given the choice to stay on or not (without an orchestra). The new producer just brought in the composer he used in Chuck and the quality of the music took a massive nosedive.
Hence not much talking about Varese's album of Tim Jones' work for the show.
If you're referring to the Chuck album, that's a shame. It's a phenomenal album.
If you're talking about Human Target, well, I didn't think there even was a second season album...
I'm a huge, huge fan of what Bear McCreary did for "Battlestar Galactica" and "Caprica," but credit also has to be given to Ron Moore, who allowed the music to take chances and sometimes take center stage. I'll follow McCreary anywhere, but he has not been given that kind of license on some other projects. (For instance, his music for "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." is quite good, but rarely gets a chance to shine in the way whole segments of "Galactica" would allow him -- the show just isn't built that way.)
Good point. Particularly after the boredom that was Jackman's Civil War, I would be thrilled if someone over at Marvel Studios decided to let a score actually shine for a change.
