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+1 well said.
EON penny pinching at its finest!
Like my grandfather always said, "Rich people don't stay rich if they spend money."
Wise words.
EON don't own the Bond theme nor the Goldfinger theme and royalties are paid to Monty Norman for the former and were paid to Barry for the latter when the GF bars were used in Licence to Kill and The GoldenEye overture.
They also used the OHMSS theme in the trailer for Spectre.
Yeah, if I remember correctly they also paid royalties to Barry's estate for that.
It's been, what?, a month since the rumor started. If it were true, you can assume that Romer would have made changes to his social media settings. He stills follows on Instagram the official 007 account and Cary Fukunaga, so there's no bad blood officially.
Of course, he may have been asked not to do anything before an official replacement is announced (to prevent the "this production is doomed" comments), but they just had the perfect opportunity to make the announcement buried in a press release with the release of the trailer, and they didn't take advantage of it.
And David Arnold has confirmed that he hadn't been approached lately to write the score, while he would make a great "plan B" regardless of anyone's thoughts on Arnold.
So, unless Romer was indeed fired weeks ago and that EON is finalizing a deal with a third composer, he's still in charge.
Yeah, something of that ilk...but I doubt that's Romer's music. Romer's music might fit Safin's lair, coz his lair looks & feels Atmospheric & Romer is naturally an Ambient Composer. It's just the rest of the score that concerns me.
Not that subtle
Yeah, something of that ilk...but I doubt that's Romer's music. Romer's music might fit Safin's lair. Coz his lair looks atmospheric & Romer is naturally an Ambient Composer. It's just the rest
Yeah, not the overall music....but I think there's a bit of subtlety in the guitar part of the Bond theme once Bond starts racing and talking to Madeleine. I doubt one can detect that without a proper sound system.
More interestingly, the press release for the film's trailer that @antovolk shared did not make mention of his name. The only official mention of Rome's involvement has come from the title reveal in August.
However...............I recently watched Gemini Man (an enjoyable action thriller with amazing CGI and thinly written characters) and loved the music. I wasn't surprised to see Lorne Balfe's name in the credits.
His work on Fallout was terrific. He also comes from Hans Zimmer's troupe of composers and his style is very very very in keeping with his mentor.
I was checking our Balfe on social media and saw that he recently started following Cary Fukunaga's account.............................................................................................................................interesting.
https://www.instagram.com/lornebalfe/?hl=en
Now, it probably means nothing (CJF doesn't follow him back). But it does raise an interesting prospect. After all, Balfe would seem like the perfect person to substitute Romer at late notice.
Am I reading too much into this?
Everything in this post is exactly why I wouldn't want Balfe near Bond. And I say that as someone who also liked his score for Fallout.
He didn't respect the franchise sound with Terminator at all, imo. One or two interesting cues aside, he scored it like a Transformers film. And he stepped into that film after Christoph Beck was booted, so to see a similar situation develop with Bond would not be ideal.
I still feel, like said previously by myself and others, that Romer is still the guy for now. I think that if he weren't, Arnold would likely have gotten the call considering how big a fan Cary is of CR.
But, you never know. Strange things do happen.
Yeah, you're right about the terminator score....balfe didn't use the theme until the end credits. But I think he followed the style established by fiedel, and there was always going to be a hint of transformers....since he's a REMOTE CONTROL composer & terminator being a film about robots as well. But we'll see who ends up scoring it. Am sure all Bond fans want is a score we can enjoy in the film & on our phones/iPods as well.
Certainly possible, but my gut says it's more unlikely than not.
Exactly. Best of both worlds.
Yeah,true.
Yeah, true...Fiedel really knew what he wanted for the franchise. I think the worst might be Elfman's score for SALVATION.
The only composer I can think of that might have done a good follow up score is Eric Serra.
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Mtd0VvFbC2mX44EvGq1cq?si=rQjojk4CR6y_d0wLskusqw One of my favourites.
Yeah, Serra has a kind futuristic style in his composition coz of his synth style....his Gunbarrel music for Goldeneye sounded very futuristic. It would have worked for terminator as well. I think composers not wanting to follow the style set by previous composers has to do with Ego of some sort. If Romer respects the works of previous composers like Barry, Martin & Arnold...then he's safe. It shouldn't be that hard to score a Bond film. The style is already there. Howard Goodall's score for Johnny English strikes again really reeks of Bond. Just like Edward Shearmur did for the first installment.even it has a goofy feel in some of it's parts. At least Goodall & Shearmur were aware that it's a parody of Bond and decided to give it that Bondian sound.
Which, strangely enough, is technically a strong score to my ears, with decent motifs and solid action material. It is, however, just not a good Terminator score.
Marco Beltrami's score for T3 is decent but he had far more success stepping into a franchise with DIE HARD. The only person who was seemingly aware that A Good Day to Die Hard was a Die Hard film was Beltrami. His score is the only thing that worked about that film.
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross would have given it a good go, if they wanted someone who was more in the "hot shit" stage of their careers in the scoring department.
Anyway, Terminator is done now. A shame.
I hope Romer, still officially attached, can look to the best Bond scores and see what made them work, then put his own mark on it.