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I'd open another bottle of champagne. Already committed to one if Villeneuve takes the directorial chair.
Oh, absolutely. Specially when he kept such a good and prolific relationship with the franchise and the producers. Would be a smart move, indeed, to bring him back.
Better then having one of the actors return .
Oh, yes, I'd want none of them back. They're the Craig team. I say bring new blood to the cast. I was watching "The three body problem" just the other day and thought that Liam Cunnigham would be a great M, for example. And Benedict Wong could make for a very interesting Major Boothroyd.
But the sound, well the sound can harken back all they want. Besides, Arnold has been Brosnan and Craig's composer. His CR and QOS soundtracks are terrific. And the N. Peal ad shows that he still has plenty to offer in the melodic creative field.
I've just fixed it in the quote as well ;) I read it as you intended my friend, and not as the non-standard spelling of thing representing Southern US pronunciation, typically used to denote a feeling or tendency ;)
I’m not sure he would want to. Although he’s obviously still fond of Bond, he hasn’t been taking big movie jobs, and I’m sure I saw him say recently that it wasn’t because he wasn’t being asked.
For me he had his stint and it was fun, but I’d like to see what others can bring.
I may be a bit late to this party but I think Raye would be the perfect title artist for the next Bond film. The orchestration on this concert at the Royal Albert Hall last Fall is some Bondian. I hope Barbara and Micheal were in the audience.
He did some of the Bond video games. FRWL and QoS I think.
Although, if it's going to be a RCP composer for Bond 26, that isn't Zimmer himself, Benjamin Wallfisch is someone I would want.
I still want a Bond score by Giacchino. No kidding, his score for The Batman is a masterpiece in my opinion, rich in character themes, suspense and romance. He strikes me as someone who should be given the chance at least once.
And if it's Lorne Balfe, you're not going to hear me complain either. I've enjoyed most of his scores so far.
As a sidenote, I'm not sure a composer's previous work is always a fair indication of what he can do with Bond. Obviously, we've got to start somewhere, but take Arnold, for example. Shaken And Stirred got him the gig; Stargate and ID4 didn't exactly scream Bond. Newman delivered quality work in many films before SF, but his two Bond scores seem to have let many fans down, unexpectedly, I might add. Zimmer convinced doubters, let down fans, and everything in between. It's hard to get the tune right for everyone. The sound of Bond is a curious beast; it brings out the best in some, while others, no matter how accomplished, reach mediocrity at best. It's always something of a gamble, in my opinion.
I have issues with The Batman. I found a lot I liked in it, but the pacing and story really dragged for me on the first viewing.
My second viewing, my mind was a little "altered", and I found some of the character work really nice, and both viewings I thought Pattinson was a very good Batman, and an interesting, psychologically unstable Bruce (Batman is way more "with it" than Bruce is. I enjoyed this aspect).
But without a doubt, the soundtrack was a masterpiece. I loved it. And I'd certainly love to hear Giacchino do James Bond.
Someone can correct me, but wasn't he chosen to replace Barry on THE INCREDIBLES, because he was such a fan of the man? Or have I somehow made that up in my head, 😂??
Okay, great! So I wasn't making up a story, or losing my mind! 😅
Exactly. And I can't get it out of my head, either. It's haunting, in a very good way.
My last attempt at Barry glory came with a call from Brad Bird about his new film, THE INCREDIBLES.
Bird wanted a classic Barry/Bond score. The two of us nerded out imagining how cool it would be if Barry wanted to really tap back into that side of himself.
We talked about tracking down the same mics, amps and guitars Barry had used back in the 60s.
Barry and Bird hit it off and John was onboard for a huge Pixar animated film.
John and I flew to San Francisco for his first presentation of themes. I begged to hear them. John pulled out his Walkman and hit play.
It was one slow, melancholy piece after another.
“Where’s the Bond action music?”
Barry said he could write that in his sleep, that the real nut to crack was capturing the midlife angst of the superhero dad.
I wasn’t too convinced.
The next day I got the call from Brad Bird.
“Well, that was interesting. But I sure would like to hear some action music.”
To encourage that he sent Barry a storyboarded sequence of the the character of Dash being frantically chased.
Barry had never worked in animation. He was accustomed to working on final footage, not pencil tests and CGI roughs. The process grew frustrating for him and he wanted to quit the film. I begged him not to.
Brad was determined to make the best of the situation.
He suggested using Barry just to write some key themes and he would hire this young kid Michael Giacchino to adapt them into a score.
I negotiated a new deal, and Barry turned in a new batch of themes… all of them slow and none of them Bondian.
I was sure Bird was going to fire him. But Brad desperately wanted John to succeed and so did I. We were two fanboys who wanted our hero to soar again.
So we brainstormed and hatched a plan.
Brad had temp tracked the teaser for THE INCREDIBLES using Barry’s score to ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE. We approached John to score the trailer knowing it was less abstract since it contained finalized footage. And the music was pure Bond.
John reluctantly played me his demo.
It was really good!
My only comment was that for about four measures it veered off into something that somehow sounded like it was from some Western. An easy fix.
John sent it off as it was.
Brad Bird called me all excited. We were finally getting somewhere.
He called John to rave and to give him a single note, to change a few seconds that sounded like cowboy music.
With that, John quit the film.
(Source: https://perspectiveforum.net/2016/05/22/the-beyondness-of-things-my-bittersweet-relationship-with-barry-john-barry/)
That made me melancholy to read. Poor Mr. Barry. Obvious there was a disconnect between the content of the story, the requests and his own artistic vision. It seems as if everyone got their heart broken a little bit, on this one.