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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      General Discussion: Composer for Stallone's EDGAR ALLAN POE?   Last Post   Posted:   Apr 8, 2020 - 7:18 PM     By:   Zooba   (Member) If you have followed Sylvester Stallone's career closely and are a big fan, you would most likely know that he has always wanted to write and direct a project or film about the life of Edgar Allan Poe. He probably has written variations over the years. I know it's a project that is very important to him and I'm wondering who he would choose to compose the project's score? Who do you all think he may have in mind? Who do you think would be good for the material? Please share your thoughts. Thanks.    Posted:   Apr 8, 2020 - 7:46 PM     By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member) Raven-Symoné    Posted:   Apr 8, 2020 - 8:09 PM     By:   Octoberman   (Member) Oh, that's easy: Alan Parsons and Andrew Powell. But they have to be in "Tales Of Mystery & Imagination" mode, not "Ladyhawke" mode.    Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 1:49 AM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) And here was me thinking everybody was just gonna write Bill Conti.    Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 2:02 AM     By:   Lokutus   (Member) It really is easy whom he would choose: BRIAN TYLER. regarding who would be good for the projects that would depend on the screenplay and the film´s direction, OBVIOUSLY.    Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 2:28 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) Oh, that's easy: Alan Parsons and Andrew Powell. But they have to be in "Tales Of Mystery & Imagination" mode, not "Ladyhawke" mode. I was just about to suggest that! Powell's dark orchestral passages in TALES are amazing, the best "Poe" music I've heard. So are the orchestral passages in LADYHAWKE, for that matter -- but a lush love theme is probably not suitable. But the likelihood of Powell being hired for a Stallone flick, is 0. Will probably be some generic stuff, like the aforementioned Tyler.    Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 7:07 AM     By:   Last Child   (Member) If you have followed Sylvester Stallone's career closely and are a big fan, you would most likely know that he has always wanted to write and direct a project or film about the life of Edgar Allan Poe. He probably has written variations over the years. I know it's a project that is very important to him and I'm wondering who he would choose to compose the project's score? Who do you all think he may have in mind? Who do you think would be good for the material? Please share your thoughts. Thanks. It'll be modern pop music styles - rap, hip hop, etc. He's not going to make a dark, brooding, introverted movie. YO LENORE! I DID IT!    Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 7:13 AM     By:   Zooba   (Member) LOVE IT! YO EDGAR!!!    Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 7:28 AM     By:   Last Child   (Member) I wonder if Stallone was influenced by boxer-faced Jack Palance who played a Poe completest in TORTURE GARDEN.    Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 8:02 AM     By:   DS   (Member) If he actually makes this, I think Bill Conti should absolutely be the first choice.    Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 9:08 AM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) They should use Les Baxter music from AIP Poe films.    Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 10:57 AM     By:   Octoberman   (Member) What Onya said about Les Baxter plays a lot into what I was saying about Alan Parsons and Andrew Powell. When I first heard their piece, "The Fall Of The House Of Usher" back on the first APP album, I was immediately struck by how reminiscent in tone it was of the old Les Baxter Poe scores. The first few minutes right up to "Arrival" is just absolute gold. The rest perhaps slightly less so, but it is still delightful to this day. I will always think it is one of the best things they ever did. It was like the perfect score to a Poe movie that was never made. But the chances of Stallone ever having heard it? Much doubt, unfortunately. My second wish would be David Paich. I don't think it follows that a Poe movie MUST be scored by a "traditional" film score composer. Paich proved his chops with "Dune", but he's certainly getting no younger.    Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 11:07 AM     By:   peterproud   (Member) Absolutely agree about Powell's "The Fall of the House of Usher"...truly evocative, great orchestral writing! Not sure what Powell's doing these days but I think it's doubtful he's even on Stallone's radar...unfortunately    Posted:   Apr 10, 2020 - 11:43 AM     By:   First Breath   (Member) Vince DiCola! :-D If not, Tangerine Dream, who did a whole album about EAP called The Island Of The Fay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoPXVAA-AEI    Posted:   Apr 10, 2020 - 12:32 PM     By:   Last Child   (Member) Seems alittle silly and unlikely that Stallone would re-use an old soundtrack (why not Raksin's "Man with a Cloak"?). But if he did, I'd nominate Mancini's "Wait Until Dark." Third time's a charm.    Posted:   Apr 12, 2020 - 8:04 AM     By:   MCurry29   (Member) What Onya said about Les Baxter plays a lot into what I was saying about Alan Parsons and Andrew Powell. When I first heard their piece, "The Fall Of The House Of Usher" back on the first APP album, I was immediately struck by how reminiscent in tone it was of the old Les Baxter Poe scores. The first few minutes right up to "Arrival" is just absolute gold. The rest perhaps slightly less so, but it is still delightful to this day. I will always think it is one of the best things they ever did. It was like the perfect score to a Poe movie that was never made. But the chances of Stallone ever having heard it? Much doubt, unfortunately. My second wish would be David Paich. I don't think it follows that a Poe movie MUST be scored by a "traditional" film score composer. Paich proved his chops with "Dune", but he's certainly getting no younger. David Paich- really? The score's theme was by ENO. The other members of the GREAT BAND- Toto also participated. Let's not forget the "Ace in the Hole" David's father the Immortal Marty Paich who conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra on the project. You speak to David and his "chops". Well, kid-he showed his "chops" all his career leading up to DUNE. He could have recorded this score when he was a Senior in High School. It's MUCH harder to write HIT Songs than a freaking passable score. Alan Parsons Project is all All-Time fave group of mine, but I give most of that credit to Eric Woolfson-you know- the guy that actually WROTE their songs and many BIG hit songs and sang. Why the focus on "Rock Stars". No Mystery. No Imagination.    Posted:   Apr 12, 2020 - 8:15 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) Alan Parsons Project is all All-Time fave group of mine, but I give most of that credit to Eric Woolfson-you know- the guy that actually WROTE their songs and many BIG hit songs and sang. True, but the instrumentals were largely by Parsons, and the orchestral stuff by Powell. Which is what we were talking about here. Woolfson didn't have much to do with the orchestral interlude on TALES, if memory serves.    Posted:   Apr 12, 2020 - 9:08 AM     By:   Last Child   (Member) Alan Parsons Project is all All-Time fave group of mine, but I give most of that credit to Eric Woolfson-you know- the guy that actually WROTE their songs and many BIG hit songs and sang. True, but the instrumentals were largely by Parsons, and the orchestral stuff by Powell. Which is what we were talking about here. Woolfson didn't have much to do with the orchestral interlude on TALES, if memory serves. Alan Ross's funk Poe album has alot catchier tunes. Enjoy it with some Cherry Pit & Pendulum ale.    Posted:   Apr 12, 2020 - 11:08 AM     By:   Octoberman   (Member) David Paich- really? The score's theme was by ENO. The other members of the GREAT BAND- Toto also participated. Let's not forget the "Ace in the Hole" David's father the Immortal Marty Paich who conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra on the project. You speak to David and his "chops". Well, kid-he showed his "chops" all his career leading up to DUNE. He could have recorded this score when he was a Senior in High School. It's MUCH harder to write HIT Songs than a freaking passable score. Alan Parsons Project is all All-Time fave group of mine, but I give most of that credit to Eric Woolfson-you know- the guy that actually WROTE their songs and many BIG hit songs and sang. Why the focus on "Rock Stars". No Mystery. No Imagination. Not really understanding your push-back here. But you seem to have taken something personally. Firstly, Eno created "A" theme, not the "MAIN" theme. "Prophecy Theme" takes up all of 4:21. The other 73-odd minutes are Paich & the rest of the group. No one is diminishing Marty Paich's arranging and conducting achievement--it's just not what the question was about. Second, your conclusions of the APP are just a wee bit inaccurate. Thor explained it fairly well. Thirdly, the reasons for my composer suggestions were explained IN the post itself. You're asking a question that was already answered. To suggest that "rock stars" can't also create good film scores is 2-dimentional thinking. I'm interested in good results, regardless of the composer's background. Lastly, Toto's "Dune" is a great score. "Freaking passable" is just flat-out ridiculous. And if you don't think it was mainly due to Paich, then you have not heard the demos that he originally submitted to Lynch.     General Discussion: Composer for Stallone's EDGAR ALLAN POE?    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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