Well, this should be an interesting hodge-podge of WTF, since the FMR article seems to indicate Britell was doing his own score, and now Metzger is recording his own score. White Fang all over again?
Well, this should be an interesting hodge-podge of WTF, since the FMR article seems to indicate Britell was doing his own score, and now Metzger is recording his own score. White Fang all over again?
There are people posting photos of the latest poster stand of Mufasa on twitter. Metzger is the sole composer credited on it.
Likely someone at Disney got cold feet and wanted the music to be a little more traditional. Hans had spoken about a first draft of his 2019 re-score that was wildly different and didn't work; one has to wonder if that was the initial attitude for the prequel as well.
Zimmer's gone now, but if Britell is still attached it suggests either a kind of Obi-Wan Kenobi end result or a Top Gun: Maverick "put everyone in the credits so no one feels bad about being rejected" scenario. If he’s not attached, it raises questions about how much control Barry Jenkins has over his film.
And who knows what relationship this'll have with the songs Lin-Manuel Miranda and Mark Mancina are doing (I assume some, given Mancina’s history with Metzger)? Or what if any role Pharrell still has?
Curious to hear what they come up with.