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Heh! That’s great. I remember a couple of years ago I was looking under a mini’s bonnet at Goodwood and heard a familiar accent: he was standing right next to me! :)
Just wonderful that it's real now. Absolutely cannot wait to hear it.
Nice! I still have a little bit of caution (do NOT want the film to sound like Inception or The Dark Knight Trilogy), but I am optimistic Hans will deliver. Glad Cary is excited too; he really seems to be a big Bond fan, which hopefully means good things for us with NTTD.
There's No Time For Caution, @FoxRox
Lovely stuff; I’m glad it’s confirmed. I don’t know what he’ll do but I’ll be very interested to hear it. I’m pretty happy for this development.
Just a plug-in, but funny how that’s posted minutes after the Zimmer announcement.
Couldn’t agree more !! Although this tweet seconds the trailer drop tweet of course 🍸
Strange time to pick! :)
Hopefully this film isn't a mess. Because of both.
But it’s not the first time a Bond film’s replaced its composer before release.
When did that happen?
In the case of Dr. No there's a ton of tracks by Monty Norman that the producers simply discarded and replaced with John Barry's rendition of the Bond theme.
Then there's GoldenEye, which only used a different composer for the tank chase.
But they didn’t fire Monty Norman, probably because it would have been too costly. They didn’t hire John Barry to write a new score. Not quite the same as Romer being replaced.
Nothing on the scale of replacing Romer, but those were the closest examples that came to mind for Bond. John Barry even made a comment on how he didn't expect the producers to use his theme as extensively as they did.
I'll be most interested in learning about how far Romer was in the project before being let go. If it concerned EON that much, he couldn't have turned in a completed score.
Yes they certainly used his theme almost as much as a new score. He must have been miffed at first.
I wonder too if they stopped Romer part way through. I hope his score is released sometime.
I think coz he said 'The music of Bond has always been Iconic'....so I think that means the score's Bondian enough. And there's every chance Zimmer looked at the musical history of Bond before he started composing. Remember Fukunaga knows Duran Duran's theme....maybe he thought Romer would embrace the Bond style fully...and obviously, Romer didn't.
I wans't too fond of him at first, but if he gives it his all and approaches it with the right mindset, this could be great. Can't wait for his rendition of the Bond Theme. Getting goosebumps already.
Here's a little tribute that Hans wrote for Barry after his death.
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2046069,00.html