Check out this link: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0209163

Then, tell me who you'd like to see score it. Personally - I'd love to see Goldsmith expand on the framework he's already established.

Of course, that's my opinion. Let's hear yours!

Yours truly,
Jeron

If anyone else scored it, I'd like to see David Arnold take the baton. Of course... heh, that would be interesting, seeing as how Arnold doesn't conduct. Oh well, you get the point.

Secondly, and more to the point, YES, he should DEFINETLY score this movie.

If Goldsmith (for whatever reason) did not return (and if I was making the film), I'd go down my list of back-up composers:

1. Elmer Bernstein
2. John Debney
3. Alan Silvestri
4. James Newton Howard
5. Basil Poledouris

Man, I never thought ANYONE would say David Arnold has musically destroyed the Bond franchise. That's pretty harsh. Of course, David Arnold is one of my favs... and Bond being one of my favorite fictional interests... gosh, that just hits pretty hard.

You'd hate the review I did w/ Crono/Kyp in the reviews section. I suggest you stay VERY FAR away from it.

Jeron

PS - How old are you? I would imagine anyone to say such a thing would have to be around 50 or 60. Either that, or I'm just a young, radical revolutionary who enjoys seeing new and inventive film music introduced to otherwise classically approached scenarios.

NP - The Beyondness of Things (John Barry).......... while reading "The Ethics of Moral Philosophy" Fun stuff!

Bond is also one of my favorite franchises, and it hurts me to see how it gets worse and worse which each movie. Because of Arnold and other peoples' changes.

Just a little "announcement" that I think will offer Arnold some new and interesting venues to explore (musically):

From IMDB:
An Irish Mission For 007? Has The IRA Heard?

Pierce Brosnan has persuaded producers of the James Bond movies to send the spy on an Irish mission for their next thriller, Britain's Empire magazine reported in its current edition. Brosnan has reportedly suggested several locations in the country of his birth for the unnamed film, due to be released in 2003. The magazine also reported that the U.K.'s Pinewood Studios, where virtually all of the Bond films have been shot in the past, may not be used for the next one. Empire says that the producers are entertaining a bid from Germany's Magic Media consortium.

.......Personally, I can't wait. Also, I apologize if I offended you in any way up there in my last post.

I did read that Bond thing the other day on IMDB. The way I see it, Arnold has this one last chance to prove he is capable of doing a good Bond score. Hopefully, he will leave much of the techno-crap behind and compose a truly beautiful score, obviously with a hint of Irish music. But if he fails again (in my eyes), I will forever think he is incapable of producing a good score, unless it's a "Stargate" sequel (there were supposed to be three in all).

Inasmuch as Stephen Sommers is reattached to direct, I'm sure he'll want Goldsmith back. Assuming Goldsmith is either available or interested. Considering the difference in the setting for THE MUMMY 2, he could presumably have a lot of Anglophilic GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY style fun with the piece. THE MUMMY already represents a happy return to the KING SOLOMON'S MINES style, which he was gradually phasing out in favor of bigger, noisier, louder stuff a la AIR FORCE ONE and CONGO.

If not Goldsmith, I wonder whether Sommers will go for Basil Poledouris, who was Sommers' choice to replace Goldsmith after scheduling forced Goldsmith out of Sommers' 1995 picture THE JUNGLE BOOK.

Then again, who knows what younger composers may have ascended by 2001?

First off, Goldsmith is the bomb and he tha man to compose Mummy, yeah!

Now I have a confession to make. I am not a big James Bond fan. In fact, I think most of the movies are rather fake. Please Jeron and Kyp, don't kill me. I mean, obviously I am in the minority so I'm probably wrong, just never could get into it.

As far as Arnold is concerned. The scores I have from him are rathere good. IN fact Last of the Dogmen is my fave.

You're not as alone about that as you might think...

(Okay, okay, little too much oscars in my blood)

I hope Goldsmith scores this one, his other fit the film so well.

--Kyp