I am not even close to kidding, this movie looks great, its dark and scary with kick ass music!

The full trailer hits with Mummy Returns tomorrow as well as the offical site.

http://homepage.mac.com/wallcrawler/.Movies/jp3tv240.mov (Yes, you all can hug me later )

--Brian

PS: When does the disc come out from Decca, I forgot.

Dan (UK)

I'm gonna see this one when it opens August 1st.

With JP3 advertising about to kick in, with the trailer being tacked onto prints of the mummy returns, the tv spots and the website going live, it should not be long before score info is announced.

Dan (UK)

NP: Mummy Returns (yeah, still)

Or so I've been told.

So I'm sure that the music will sounds very.... familiar...... but at least Don will (from what I hear) be contributing to bridging the Williams stuff with his own original music.

We'll see....

That's exactly what excites me, exactly what he'll be doing with the Williams themes.

I'd assume the former, or Williams would also be getting a credit on the JP3 posters/trailers...etc for themes, as he did on something like Superman II I'd think.

Dan (UK)

As I said, my understanding is that he's adapting Williams' score for the first film for this third film. That means he is NOT writing his own score using Williams' themes. Rather, he's molding Williams' score from the first film to FIT this third film - not an easy feat, mind you.

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Originally posted by dgoldwas:
As I said, my understanding is that he's adapting Williams' score for the first film for this third film. That means he is NOT writing his own score using Williams' themes. Rather, he's molding Williams' score from the first film to FIT this third film - not an easy feat, mind you.

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Certainly not easy, but also not as enjoyable on CD and probably not as functional in the film. As I said, FSM's original message seems to have expressed the same thought, i.e. that Davis will adapt large chunks of Williams' music. But the latest FSM Daily shows a couple of mails bitching about that, with the comment that there's nothing wrong with using Williams' THEMES. So, it seems to me that nobody knows for sure at the moment.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/jurassic_park_3/

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Originally posted by dgoldwas:
Marian,

As I said, my understanding is that he's adapting Williams' score for the first film for this third film. That means he is NOT writing his own score using Williams' themes. Rather, he's molding Williams' score from the first film to FIT this third film - not an easy feat, mind you.

Dan

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I am assuming John Williams wasn't interested in scoring the film? Otherwise, why not just ask Williams to score the film. As much as I like Don Davis' work, I am not feeling too enthusiastic about this score.

IMO, all such scores in the past have been nothing but rehashed and derivative of the originals. Let's just hope Davis proves me wrong.

New setpieces (water, flying) will be cool, and hopefully the movie will be better than the lackluster Lost World. Macy's mustache looks funny however.

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I am assuming John Williams wasn't interested in scoring the film? Otherwise, why not just ask Williams to score the film. As much as I like Don Davis' work, I am not feeling too enthusiastic about this score.

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I don't think he had time actually, so he recommended Don Davis.

Dan (UK)

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Originally posted by Dan Brecher:

I don't think he had time actually, so he recommended Don Davis.

Dan (UK)

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And I thought it was because his buddy, Mr. Spielberg, wasn't directing it!

Seriously though, Williams might very well have recommended Davis to score the film. That said, he isn't necessarily the best at doing this. Didn't he himself say he did not like the score McNeely wrote for Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire? Another one he recommended from what I have heard.

In any case, this doesn't mean we will automatically get an good or bad score. I am hoping for the former though. Only time will tell.

Regards,
Sean Robert Abbey

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In any case, this doesn't mean we will automatically get an good or bad score. I am hoping for the former though. Only time will tell

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Absolutely, and one hopes for the best.

In regards to your question about the last bit of trailer music used, it's Immediate Music's "Redrum".

You sure it's Redrum? Right after Grant say "you probably wont get off this island alive" it kicks in, but it doesn't sound like Redrum, yet certainly sounds like one of Immediate Music's compositions...

I asked Yoav Goren of Immediate Music about the JP3 trailer, and that's the reply he gave me...

Is it an alternate edit then? Because I thought Redrum is the track used in Mummy Returns teaser and the latest Final Fantasy trailer. They sound pretty different in comparison to what's heard in JP3. It's a neat bit of music.

Dan (UK)

I had sent him a bunch of questions and realized (after re-reading his reply) that he was indeed replying to the MUMMY RETURNS / FINAL FANTASY question, and not the JP3 question. My bad!!

I'll keep you posted if he gets back to me regarding JP3. Sorry!!

I think he'll do a very creditable job on JP3, he's not exactly like Horner as in verbatim et al.

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Oh quite a bit indeed, episodes of Seaquest, and a whole host of other scores, Bound etc.

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...and THE MATRIX, THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, VALENTINE, ANTITRUST, etc. etc.
(I think it's worth at least mentioning THE MATRIX!)

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I think he'll do a very creditable job on JP3, he's not exactly like Horner as in verbatim et al.

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But you have to keep in mind that he's just adapting Williams' score from the first film. So it WILL be a "verbatim" effort, more or less. Still, it's sounding like an interesting project - you can't just cut and paste the old score, so Davis does have a bit of work to do!

Dan

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But you have to keep in mind that he's just adapting Williams' score from the first film. So it WILL be a "verbatim" effort, more or less.

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Hmm... so what's this quotation at Music from the Movies about writing new themes?

Curious James

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Hmm... so what's this quotation at Music from the Movies about writing new themes?

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What about it?

If you scroll waaaay up to the top of this thread, you'll see that I wrote: "but at least Don will (from what I hear) be contributing to bridging the Williams stuff with his own original music"

I never said he wouldn't have his own stuff; I just said that he'll be adapting Williams' score from the first film.

1. They are recording the score already, and will be done by the end of the month.

2. He is writing a completely ORIGINAL score, and uses Williams' themes throughout.

3. The action scenes are reportedly going to "blow the Matrix away" in terms of music. (Don didn't say that - it was someone else at the session.)

4. He already has recorded some "previs" music for THE MATRIX : RELOADED (aka THE MATRIX 2) and they will be shooting some scenes to his music.

Okie dokie? That should clear some things up.

"This summer...reload!" (thanks IGN!)

thanks for the info D Dawg!

--B

Niiiiiiiice