As this is the one that is closest to the story "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes", I look forward to it very much. I hope they will keep it as dark as that movie and Doyle would be a great choice.
Weird choice. I would have chosen someone slightly more hard-edged for this (like Goldsmith and Elfman were before). Doyle is a little too "classical", IMO.
But let's just wait untill there is an official confirmation.
He's pretty talented. I'd rather see him do it than the Damnable Zimmer.
Definitely. Why is Zimmer so popular? You know what would be cool? Have some one adapt Goldsmith's original 1968 music into the new movie like Elmer Bernstein adapting Bernard Herrmann's original score for "Cape Fear" into Scorsese's 1991 remake. Goldsmith's still sounds good and is considered one of the most important scores in cinema (it was listed in The American Film Institutes' Top 25 Scores of All Time).
Other than that I just can't think of anyone else other than James Newton Howard (good for eerie but not known for action) or Thomas Newman (maybe a tad too quirky).
How do you know what he's going to write? It might be a stunner for all you know.
Or can composers only score according to type?
So far in Doyle's career, there hasn't been anything remotely as harsh, aggressive and gritty as an APES score requires (unless it's an apes film set in a Merchant/Ivory-type setting). So I'm just saying it's a weird choice. But I'm giving everyone the benefit of the doubt. There might just be coming something completely out of left field, even though it isn't likely. And the film may be a total departure from previous APES films too, who knows?
In any case, let's just wait untill we have an official confirmation before we speculate further.
How do we know what kind of score this Apes film needs? We haven't seen it yet.
I also don't see how Thor can assume anything regarding film and score since there's no information available.
Dude, did you read what I said? I never assumed anything. I just said that the combination PLANET OF THE APES and Patrick Doyle is a weird combo....on the surface! Only time will tell IF Doyle will score it, WHAT the film will be like and then WHAT the score will sound like.
Get it? Weird choice. Time will tell how it will turn out.
I agree. I was only responding to Thor's notion that Doyle couldn't do "aggressive" or whatever. Clearly, the guy can do it in spades.
Maybe he can, maybe he can't. He hasn't done anything like it so far, but who knows what he's capable of. FRANKENSTEIN was gothic, bombastic horror - not really like anything that has been composed for previous APES incarnations, if that is a point of measurement.
Thor, I think you are underestimating Doyle's abilities and overestimating the POTA score legacy. Aside from Goldsmith's groundbreaking score, none of the sequels (including the Burton fiasco) even matched that ingenuity and a lot of the sequels were too "classical" sounding for my taste (mostly the Rosenman ones).
If anything, I'd even go as far and say this project is below Doyle's abilities so I'm glad they have a composer of his status onboard (will await official word)!
Any day we get a new Doyle score is a good day! And let's not forget he was able to pull CARLITO'S WAY and NEEDFUL THINGS out of his bag of tricks so one cannot type-cast him as a composer of foreign arthouse cinema, children's adventures and Shakespearean dramas (although he excels at those as well).
