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"ELFMAN FOR LORD OF THE RINGS?! WHO´S DUMB IDEA WHAS THAT?"

"You want who to do the score to Pee Wee's Big Adventure!? Oh come on Tim - he's a rock star - he's never written any REAL music!"

"For BATMAN!? Are you nuts!? This guy only does comedy. Sure he's quirky and off beat, but we need someone who can write a BIG score! Not a little 5 piece ensemble bit. Besides it needs to be really dark - he's too light for the picture."

"For Nightmare Before Christmas!? Come one, sure he's done songs - but a pop song and an entire musical are two different things. There's no way he can write the score, write the lyrics, write the music for the lyrical songs, and sing the main lead! It's impossible!"

"For Sommersby!? You must be crazy! This guy's dark and creepy. Even the film about the scissorhands guy was twisted. We need something lush, and beautiful. Why don't we just go with Johnny Williams, okay?"

"Dolores Claiborne!? Are you out of your mind!? This guy can't handle anything actually dark AND SERIOUS! He can only do quirky comic book dark, or beautifuly lush scores. We need a guy who can write a slow version of Psycho. Perhaps you should go with someone else. . ."

"Mission Impossible!? We need a guy who can do a spy theme! Elfman can't handle that! He only does dark, serious, comic book, Herrmanesque, beautiful, orchestral scores. He can't do an electronic score. Sure - To Die For was electronic, but that was a comedy. Besides, his Boingo days are over, he's probably forgotten all the tricks of the synth trade. Mr. De Palma, maybe you should stay with Silvestri. . ."

"You want WHO for Good Will Hunting!? Come on Mr. Van Sant. . .that guy is bombastic as hell. We need someone who writes low key music. . ."

AND FINALLY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

"ELFMAN FOR LORD OF THE RINGS!? Come one, he can't do this - nobody can! Let's go with Williams."

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...took the words right out of my mouth

SFT

I'll keep my fingers crossed and you do the same. We'll see who comes out right on this one.

~Jeron

Relying on our experience (and I don't want to get into how long that is - it'd give away our ages ) we came to a few decisions (however right or wrong).

First, we've all but eliminated John Williams for this project for a few reasons:

1. Aside from the movies he will be scoring for Spielberg, he is also - don't forget - doing the next two Star Wars movies. This will take up his time.

2. Having done (counting the upcoming SW movies) 3 trilogies (a trilogy of trilogies? ) - all 6 Star Wars movies plus the 3 Indiana Jones films - it's highly unlikely that he would want to tackle such a project.

Second, we don't think Goldsmith will do it, but we might be wrong. Not to say he wouldn't do a good job, it's just that we feel it's not "up his alley" right now.

We kicked around a few more names, and came up with a few good posibilities: Basil Poledouris, Alan Silvestri, and James Horner.

One person we'd love to see do it (but probably won't) is Patrick Doyle.

Another person we didn't think would get it would be Danny Elfman. It's just not his area, and although we like his work, we don't think this would be for him (sorry SFT).

These are just a few thoughts, taking into consideration the subject matter of the movie and the styles of the composers, and how they would "fit."

Of ocurse, we might be wrong.

Kevin
NP - First Knight (Sp. Promo)

Kevin, Kevin, Kevin..my dear boy...you completely missed the point of my post...thssss!.....

SFT

I'm pushing for Trevor Jones or Jerry Goldsmith. Joel McNeely could do a great job too... he's our Goldsmith/Williams compromise.

All of his scores so far have been really gentle and beautiful. With exceptions to a few tracks on Meet Joe Black. We need to hear a large epic score from him,

Williams: Too little time on his hands! Besides, after asking to do Stepmom, I have a feeling he's taking himself to other places...

Goldsmith: Let me start of by saying that I really enjoyed The Mummy and The 13th Warrior, but it sounds to me like Goldsmith is tired of doing epic movies. I've enjoyed his recent action scores immensely, but they were nowhere near even the outer boundaries of the originality and intelligence Goldsmith is capable of. Even he himself stated in a recent interview (during ST: Ins...) that his favorite kind of movie to score is small romances. Besides, I'm still trying to catch up on my Goldsmith epics, another one would put me even more behind.

Horner: Maybe early 80's Horner, but not recent Horner. I think he should be going for dramas right now, because that is what he has recently excelled at (in my opinion). Although not being vastly knowledgable of the LOTR universe, I might not know.

Who am I hoping for? Go Danny! I think this is the perfect chance (as if Sleepy Hollow isn't already a perfect chance) to broaden his musical canvas. But, like I said, I'm not vastly knowledgable about the LOTR universe, so I can't really tell.

As to my comment about my collection, that was only the last (and unrelated) sentence of my Goldsmith argument and it was meant to be a humorous remark (guess I forgot my smiley ) It is the rest of the paragraph which is the reason I'm not crossing my fingers for Goldsmith.

I'm sorry I mislead you. I know you still disagree, but I don't want to be misunderstood.

If I had my pick it would be Williams, Elfman, T. Jones and lastly, Goldsmith.

HUH? (I hear you say. Yes, you must actually stop and HUH?)

Williams would be my first choice because of his deft handling of epic, imaginative material in the past. However, I agree with previous posts that point out reasons it won't be him.

Elfman has deep understanding of Fantasy and Myth that no other composer so far has exhibited. He has shown the intimate knowledge of Myth that Tolkien himself brought to LOTR. In my mind this pushes him to nearly the top of list.

Trevor Jones has score many fantasy type films and is very good with the kind of material, (Merlin, Excalibur, Dark City, Dark Crystal).

-Dawk

SFT