Yeah IIRC Elfman said it was one of the worst experiences of his professional career.
Danny Elfman will score Doctor Strange 2
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Yeah IIRC Elfman said it was one of the worst experiences of his professional career.
Bro what the fuck? This is an impossible opinion.
Mission: Impossible, Mars Attacks!, Men in Black, Good Will Hunting, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Planet of the Apes, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Meet the Robinsons, Hellboy II, Milk, Silver Linings Playbook, Big Eyes
Even his Fifty Shades scores are worthwhile.
Just wait until they announce who's doing the editing and who's doing the cinematography.
He developed, produced, wrote, and directed on Ash v Evil Dead during that window.
Edit: and produced on several other films in the interim.
Doctor Strange wasn't one of his better OSTs overall, but Giacchino's leitmotif was quite the earworm. Kept getting stuck in my head for months after watching the movie. As long as Elfman uses it in his score, I think this is a fine choice. Clearly Raimi and Elfman like working together.
I've seen some takes on here, but this one is pretty wild. In what world is Raimi a boring director?
He used Zimmer's WW theme and Williams' Superman Theme in Justice League, and Endgame threw in character themes from their respective movies all over the place, so I don't think there's going to be much of a worry.
Fair, but the only thing he himself actually directed between Oz and Strange 2 was the pilot of Ash vs Evil Dead. I'm not convinced that the reason he didn't direct movies in that time was because he didn't want to, so the only other option is that he was in director jail.
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Silvestris avengers theme is in Elfmans compositions for AoU, he uses it pretty well
Yes, Raimi fell in love with a temp score from Christopher Young and Elfman said he'd never work with him again.
Young then scored the next Raimi film and this will be Elfman's second Raimi score after the "I'll never work with him again" proclamation.
Dr Strange had a great soundtrack as is, so hoping that Elfman can build on it rather than scrap what was good there.
This is still by far my most looked forward to Marvel film.
This is still by far my most looked forward to Marvel film.
Director jail makes no sense. Oz wasn't a notable financial failure to begin with. Never mind that the success of Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy is pretty much enough in and of itself to keep him out of director jail for a long, long time.
First I've read about Raimi directing the upcoming Doctor Strange film. What happened to Derrickson?
He left the project a long time ago. Raimi was heavily rumored for a long, long time until finally being confirmed relatively recently.
EDIT- just checked and Derrickson's departure was announced in Jan 2020.
I'm probably the few who didn't like Doctor strange Soundtrack all that much. The main theme sounded too much like a variation of Startrek. I'm not sure if Danny Elfman is a better choice given his current work's maybe with pairing back with Raimi something interesting may come out of it. The last soundtrack from Danny Elfman I've liked might have been the Wolfman going back almost to 2010.
Wasn't the Dr Strange theme just Giacchino ripping his own Star Trek theme? I liked it either way, the theme that is. OST as a whole was rather dull.
How Elfman isn't in composer jail is baffling. He is so damn boring. Honestly thought they would go for Ludwig Goransson, who seems to be Disneys go-to-guy these days.
How Elfman isn't in composer jail is baffling. He is so damn boring. Honestly thought they would go for Ludwig Goransson, who seems to be Disneys go-to-guy these days.
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Hoping for the best....but not too excited after his lacklustre Justice League score. (On a side note, I can't wait for JunkieXL's Justice League).
Granted, I really liked his "Heroes" track in Age of Ultron (I think he was also brought into the fray pretty late on that project to work alongside Bryan Tyler? Or was it the other way around)
Granted, I really liked his "Heroes" track in Age of Ultron (I think he was also brought into the fray pretty late on that project to work alongside Bryan Tyler? Or was it the other way around)
That's fair. I was close though. It'll be 19 years this summer! That really was the last leitmotif that Elfman composed that's memorable in my opinion.
And there were one of two really recognizable Lost snippets in the Star Trek theme, too. I've always wondered about that...does a composer sometimes work from the same 'template' (basis/foundation/his go-to melodies) when composing something new, for the lack of a better word, which leads to many of their familiar beats bleeding over into their other OST's/themes?
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on the topic of raimi spider theme: doesnt the next spidey movie release before this strange movie? if another universe spidey is going to show up i imagine it will have already happened before this movie comes out
