If he is indeed going to score The Last Voyage of the Demeter later this year, it will probably be different kind of Newman score since i'm not sure that he has ever done an outright horror film before unless something such as The Rapture counts.
Newman scored The Lost Boys. While he doesn't really ever work in the genre, there is that and a few 90s Mystery Thrillers like Whispers in the Dark which came earlier in his career.
Strikes could go on until Christmas and beyond so we may not get any more Newman until 2024.
That's a real shame if it turns out to be the case.
He doesn't seem to have anything lined up beyond White Bird, I suppose it depends how recently he finished Elemental.
Ah well... I guess we saw that one coming.
imdb has Newman attached to Andrew Stanton's first live action project 'In the Blink of an Eye' (no release timeline given). Depends how much you trust imdb, although Newman hinted (or rather, didn't deny) in an Elemental interview that a new project might be announced soon, and it might be with a regular collaborator...
"All the physical production trappings are first-rate, and if Thomas Newman's piano-and-strings-driven score is unmemorable, it like much else here makes a virtue of restraint."
"All the physical production trappings are first-rate, and if Thomas Newman's piano-and-strings-driven score is unmemorable, it like much else here makes a virtue of restraint."
With the strike over, we might finally get to hear Newman's score for White Bird...
According to both IMDB and Wikipedia - not always reliable! - Newman is apparantly scoring Yorgos Lanthimos's 2024 film "AND". Not a director/composer combo we've seen before, it could be interesting. I thought he'd be nailed on for Stanton's 'In The Blink of an Eye' but things have been very quiet about that film.
Very interesting, I hope that he will score the Lanthimos movie and that Newman does 2-3 new scores next year.
Indiewire says that Thomas Newman is indeed scoring the Lanthimos movie even if i'm sceptical about it being true:
“AND” marks another collaboration between Lanthimos and Searchlight Pictures, currently pushing “Poor Things” out into Oscar season as one of the most revered (and scandalous) contenders. Onboard as well are his trusty DP Robbie Ryan as well as composer Thomas Newman, new to the singular lands of the Greek filmmaker. Lanthimos hasn’t popped up at Sundance since screening “The Lobster” post-Cannes — it wouldn’t hurt his “Poor Things” awards profile to press flesh at Park City with a new project also starring Stone and Dafoe. —RL
I saw the movie yesterday as it was released on the 2nd February here in Poland. I went to the cinema specifically to listen to Newman's score but the story captivated me extremely. It's a beautiful but sad tale, it hits all the right notes for a drama movie and, at times, it was so absorbing that I was forgetting to focus on the music primarily.
So now to the score.
Many (including me) will be happy to learn that the score is basically Tokien meets Shawshank Redemption with some flavors of 1917. There are a few outstanding cues. There's one playing towards the end of the first act that has solo guitar, there's one with trumpet solo as well and a nice piano piece featuring in the end crawler (it was an immediate earworm for me). There are vocals used throughout but in a way that I've never heard in a Newman's score. Overall, the score is the usual Newmanian warm strings plus heavily utilized clarinet - but it's not a bad thing, it's fresh and very emotional music. Newman was a perfect choice to score this movie.
There was about 50-60% music in the movie which totals to ~70 minutes of the score excluding source cues and songs. I was able to record (part of) the end credits music with my phone so if anyone is interested in a small preview just shoot me a PM.
