http://www.musicfromthemovies.com/article.asp?ID=588

"X-Men 3, one of the biggest action films to come out next year, will get an original score by John Powell. The prestigious assignment has been confirmed to Music from the Movies by 20th Century Fox."

Sounds very promising to me. I always enjoy John Powell's music, post-Media Ventures.; and X-Men are a great superhero property to get some strong themes going (I'm still imagining what his take on Watchmen would have been like had Paramount not have foolishly canned it last Summer). Since we have a new director and composer, I imagine we won't be hearing any of the material by Kamen or Ottman.

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Originally posted by Al:
What's worrying is that John Powell is now cause for good news.

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Originally posted by Shaun Rutherford:
What happened to Schifrin? That's crap.

Shaun

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I agree with Shaun. Schifrin scoring this film is much more enticing than John Powell scoring the movie. JP better not treat this like he does every other action movie he does, like it's a bloody cartoon and that the audience will think the movie is as funny as he thinks it is; a good example is Paycheck ... some great Bond like moments, but most of the action music sounds like it's for a goofball comedy (he should at least pretend to be serious about the movies he's doing—Harry Gregson-Williams is great at hiding his contempt for many of the films he's attached to, just try Armageddon).

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Originally posted by Al:
What's worrying is that John Powell is now cause for good news.

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What was worrying was Schifrin doing the score for X3.
Brett Ratner is so awful as a director...but Powell will improve Ratner´s poor visuals, no doubt about it. I doubt Schifrin had been able to do that; his collaboratios with Ratner had been horrific (Rush Hour and Rush Hour 2 wow! ).

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Originally posted by Shaun Rutherford:
What happened to Schifrin? That's crap.

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Originally posted by Mark Olivarez:
Well Powell's yet to be written score can't be any worse than X-2's music.

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Originally posted by sean:

Yeah, right. Ottman's X2 score is fantastic, and Powell can screw this up big time, no doubt about it. I'd like to hear something serious and intense from him, no jaunty superhero athems or bouncy, playful action.

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Originally posted by Mark Olivarez:
Ottman's score is bland and un-interesting. It has that "been there heard that" before feeling to it.

Never was too keen on Kamen's music either but his hands may have been tied by Singer on what he could or could not do.

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Those are my feelings - spot on - regarding Ottman's sequel score.

There's also an expanded 2-disc set promo for Ottman's X-Me 2 score but it's not complete like Kamen's X-Men score. There are some cues that are still absent.

It shall be intresting to hear what John Powell does with this score.

Edit: Also Kamen's actual theme for the X-Men is pretty damn close to the animated series. Unlike Ottman's X-Men 2 theme...

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Originally posted by BMikeJ:
Just out of curiousity, are you basing your opinion on Ottman's score on what you've heard from the album? Like Kamen, only half of his score made it to the album and I don't think it's an adequate representation of the score.

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However, despite coming clean about (if I recall correctly) half a dozen influences on the temp track, he said he had never heard Mancini's score to Lifeforce.

The only similarity I ever saw in the two themes was the rhythm, and I hope I'm not bursting anyone's bubble by saying that Mancini was not the first composer in history to use it.

Well I'm not, but listen to the strings in the first five seconds of Lifeforce theme, that's similar (if not the same, I don't have X2 with me right now) to Ottman's theme, that why I said he based it (okay the theme not the score) on Lifeforce.

And then the brass comes in, the theme is different but the.. um style (?) is similar too.