Surprised no one has said Joel McNeely yet. Cameron has worked with him several times before, and he'd be more than up to the challenge of creating a Horner-esque score with an identity of its own.
YES. GREAT idea! Somebody send James Cameron Intrada's Tinker Bell CDs, stat!
McNeely or JNH (because of stuff like Dinosaur which shows he can handle the "ethnic" parts really well) are the two best suggestions I've heard so far. I really, really hope Zimmer doesn't get it.
Surprised no one has said Joel McNeely yet. Cameron has worked with him several times before, and he'd be more than up to the challenge of creating a Horner-esque score with an identity of its own.
Horner-esque? No, we want McNeely to do a McNeely-esque score!
It would be a great opportunity - but I don't think it will happen...
Surprised no one has said Joel McNeely yet. Cameron has worked with him several times before, and he'd be more than up to the challenge of creating a Horner-esque score with an identity of its own.
Yeah, we've done this topic a few times now. I can't remember what I wrote the last few times, but I'd certainly welcome James Newton Howard or Hans Zimmer, as previously suggested. Both are at their very best when working in "ethnic" idioms.
As one critic said of Avatar, it is not much more than "software delivery system' which apparently is darn good enough for most of the planet to watch repeatedly. I will not watch another Avatar, but I would buy a score, and I think that Matt B is right that Joel McNeely is a fine choice.
Anybody who will put up with working with one of the biggest egos in the business.
James Horner had the stamina and the track record to stand up to Cameron.
Any young composer right now will be stampeded into the ground by Big Jim.
JNH would be able to write a great score for this - but would he want to subject himself to Mr. Titanic?
Sadly, the only reasonable solution is Hans Zimmer, due to his enormous success and fame. And he and his factory would be capable of scoring these projected three sequels in a short amount of time, having no problems rescoring again and again when the different cuts are made.
It'll be someone we've never heard of willing to spend a year letting Cameron basically write it by remote control (no pun intended), and it'll suck. Just a prediction!
It'll be someone we've never heard of willing to spend a year letting Cameron basically write it by remote control (no pun intended), and it'll suck. Just a prediction!
Lukas
Cheer up!
Cameron is a fantastic filmmaker, and AVATAR was the greatest film that year (and still the film that has nurtured the "new" 3D the best). I'm confident a new AVATAR will inspire whatever composer he chooses. I have no worries there. What I'm more curious about is if this new composer will make use of Horner's existing themes.
It'll be someone we've never heard of willing to spend a year letting Cameron basically write it by remote control (no pun intended), and it'll suck. Just a prediction!
