The new EOne at Cannes Brochure has revealed the fact that Maps To The Stars will be scored by Howard Shore!
Howard Shore has previously scored The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, as well as two other Cronenberg movies “Cosmopolis” & “A Dangerous Method”!
(Click here to listen to the Eclipse score, and here to listen to the Cosmopolis Score!)
The Weiss family is the archetypical Hollywood dynasty: father Sanford is an analyst and coach, who has made a fortune with his self-help manuals; mother Cristina mostly looks after the career of their son Benjie, 13, a child star.
One of Sanford’s clients, Havana, is an actress who dreams of shooting a remake of the movie that made her mother, Clarice, a star in the 60s. Clarice is dead now and visions of her come to haunt Havana at night…
Adding to the toxic mix, Benjie has just come off a rehab program he joined when he was 9 and his sister, Agatha, has recently been released from a sanatorium where she was treated for criminal pyromania.
Drama / Canada/France/Germany – Shooting starts July 2013
Ever wonder how Carter Burwell managed to score Twilight and Breaking Dawn so brilliantly?
In an interview with "The Sag Harbor Express" he explains a little about the creative process, and how he thought up the melody for the Twilight music.
Carter Burwell
Over the course of a 28-year career, the film composer and Amagansett resident [Carter Burwell] has written music for more than 75 feature-length films including “Twilight” and nearly every film ever made by the Coen Brothers.
At what point in the filming process will you come onboard?
Generally, I don’t actually write anything until a film has actually been shot. But, there are some exceptions. In the movie I’m working on right now, which is “Breaking Dawn: Part II,” they needed Rob Pattinson and the actress who plays his daughter to play piano on screen. I had to write this duet before they shot the film so they could actually learn the parts. Rob is a musician, so he prides himself on working out the fingering for these correctly.
So before the movie is finished filming, but after you’ve discussed the mood of the film with the directors, do you start to research and gather sounds?
I do. Actually, it’s an interesting thing. The question of mood doesn’t really come up that much. A typical thing we would discuss would be the motivation of the main character.
So, I understand the creative process, the idea of trying to find a character’s motivation. But, how do you even start to put music to it?
I’ll first watch the movie enough to get a definite idea of what I think it wants: there’s a story element that needs a theme, or there’s a character that needs a theme. I’ll have these thoughts in mind, and then I’ll go and play the piano without the movie there and that’s what I do. I’ll sit at the piano for as long as it takes — and hopefully it doesn’t take too long because they don’t give you that much time!
Have you always played piano?
I took lessons as a kid — I really hated it — and came back to it later when I was in my high school years because a friend showed me how to improvise on piano. Playing written music, which is of course what I was doing when I had lessons as a kid, is not really interesting to me. I don’t even like playing my own music once it’s written down.
Have you always been able to associate emotions with sound? For instance, to know what a character’s motivation is, and then easily get to the piano and play it out?
Canadian indie rock band, Metric have announced on their website that they will collaborate
with Howard Shore on Robert Pattinson's upcoming film Cosmopolis!
"Also, we just confirmed we will be working with our favorite film composer Howard Shore on the score for a new David Cronenberg movie starring Robert Pattinson, minus the vampires! It's an adaptation of the book "Cosmopolis" by Don DeLillo, and the themes are right in tune with the overall mood of the world at the moment. In "Cosmopolis", the rat has become a unit of currency!"
According to playlist.com, the talented composer Carter Burwell, who was behind the beautiful score in Twilight, is set to score more music for Breaking Dawn!
"Burwell has an existing relationship with the director of the final two parts, Bill Condon, having collaborated on Kinsey and Gods And Monsters,and will return to the position after Alexandre Desplat followed him for New Moon with Howard Shore stepping in for Eclipse.
Shooting began this past November with all major cast members such as Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Dakota Fanning, Michael Sheen, Anna Kendrick and Ashley Greene reprising their roles.
The two parts will be shot as one project and will then be respectively released on November 18th, 2011 and November 16th, 2012. And in case you haven't done so already, check out Burwell's score for True Grit, it's ace."
Below is a preview of the True Grit score:
Hmm... I can still hear a bit of the twilight-dreamy sound. Do you?
He'll be perfect for Breaking Dawn!
Let's hope he writes another lullaby for Robward to play on-screen this time! (Maybe Renesmee's lullaby?!!)
A girl can always dream! ;)
Are you excited to have Carter back, or did the Twilight score put you to sleep?
I'm personally thrilled. It was my favourite out of the three scores! :)
