Thomas Newman to do the score for Skyfall.

[Thunderpussy]

http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/thomas ... am-mendes/

In case this hasn't been posted. Thomas Newman to do the score for Skyfall.

[Goldeneye]

Thanks to Thunderpussy for the original post

http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/thomas ... am-mendes/

Thomas Newman Scoring 23rd Bond Film 'Skyfall' for Sam Mendes

January 4, 2012
Source: MI6 HQ
by Alex Billington
Thomas Newman & Sam Mendes

Always Bet On Bond. Word is that Skyfall, the 23rd Bond film currently in production, may have found its composer as well. Bond fansite MI6 HQ is reporting that Oscar nominated Australian composer Thomas Newman (of The Help, The Adjustment Bureau and The Debt recently) will be scoring Skyfall for director Sam Mendes and EON Productions. Mendes & Newman are regular collaborators, with a history including scoring Mendes' films American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead and Revolutionary Road previously. As always, the more news I hear about Skyfall, the more excited I get. 2012 is the year he'll finally be back!

Thomas Newman is an experienced composer who's been around for a while, working with Mendes back in 1999 on American Beauty. He even scored The Shawshank Redemption and Meet Joe Black, but really rose to prominence in recent years with Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Little Children, The Good German and Brothers. In addition to working on Skyfall, he recently finished The Iron Lady and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel scores as well. The last two Bond films with Daniel Craig featured scores by David Arnold (both Quantum of Solace and Casino Royale); Arnold has worked on five Bond films since Tomorrow Never Dies. But it is obviously the director's choice in regards to who he wants to use to create the sound of his story this time.

If you're humming the original, iconic James Bond theme in your head, here's details on its origin. Monty Norman has often been credited with writing the "James Bond Theme", and has received royalties since 1962. However, for Dr. No, the song was arranged by John Barry, who went on to compose scores for 11 Bond films in total. It was David Arnold who took over from Barry and "took the essential elements of Bond and updated them for the 90s by incorporating driving rock rhythms," establishing the sound we're familiar with today. Arnold is busy as the 2012 London Olympics musical director, so Newman is stepping in instead

[FormerBondFan]

This is bad, VERY bad! This composer received 10 nominations from the Oscars. Looks like there may no peace after all.

[Blowfeld]

FBF I love you like a brother but how is this bad for us? rise or fall, good or bad we have on position, it wouldn't matter if John Williams would score this movie. Or If it were Directed by James Cameron and called Bondatar.

[FormerBondFan]

FBF I love you like a brother but how is this bad for us? rise or fall, good or bad we have on position, it wouldn't matter if John Williams would score this movie. Or If it were Directed by James Cameron and called Bondatar.

Newman was nominated by the Oscars 10 times, and if he gets one for Bond 23, this will make us like a bunch of losers. If you don't understand, BJ will tell you. And again, you should be glad neither CR nor QOS got any Oscar nominations, not even in the technical category. FYEO was the last Bond to get nominated by Oscars, and it should be kept that way.....until EON's EVIL Empire crumpled in ruins (with Bond 23 crash and burn to ground) just like Sidious' Empire did in the ROTJ. And there's no ROTJ victory for us if Bond 23 gets even a single Oscar nomination whether it's major category or technical. As Mace Windu said, I sense a plot to destroy us.

[Blowfeld]

No, No it will not.
Awards, ha, a Jedi seeks not these things.

If Bond is not true to Bond it is not Bond, all that matters.

Big budgets, Box Office, making art house films do not make a movie great. We are not so easily stymied by trivial things. MGW wants Craig to be Bond forever, so does that woman obsessed with Craig, doesn't mean he will, he almost quit before the sequel could start.

Look it I do not want all this oscar awards chasing to be fruitful (and it probably will fall flat on its face), what do you think we can do to stop it? If we had enough power to do this, don't you think things would be different in the Bond world.

Truth is nobody aside form MGM has much of a say in the Bond world, or the world EON lives on, in bubble protected by their money and influence, they do not give one rip what the fans want or care if they damage a iconic brand. To that end they are making a huge leap of faith they didn't screw up in 2005 by rebooting and recasting some one Ian would consider a immigrant plumber. They are off in the weeds not bring back some of the people who made Bond work it may not pay off. Either way we keep our heads down and keep up the good fight.

[FormerBondFan]

Blowfeld, you better hope Bond 23 doesn't get even a single Oscar nomination.

EON is doing anything to make the general public forget Pierce as the modern day Bond. Since rebooting with DC, they are trying to do get away with what they did do Pierce.....dismissed him and not giving him as great Bond aside from GoldenEye. Back when Pierce was Bond, all Babs did was playing it safe and wasting his time with weak and inspiring script and storyline, and with DC in the part, she's trying to make us forget Pierce by trying to make improvements for the franchise. Nowadays, those minions blame Pierce like it's fault.

If Bond 23 gets even a single Oscar nomination in the technical category, it will be an insult not only to Pierce as the modern day Bond but also to the entire pop culture. It would like the American public giving DC Bond some love, and this would be a very bad image. I have a friend in facebook who is a devoted Trekkie, and he greatly despises the J.J.'s Trek reboot as it's a piece of sh1t that is a disgrace to the Trek philosophy. And he's not even happy that Trek 2009 got Oscar nominations in the technical category. Oscars may not be perfect, but it's highest honor everyone will ever get in the entertainment world. Yeah, there are bad films that do get Oscar nominations. Now look at this. FYEO was the last Bond that got an Oscar nomination. If Bond 23 (good or bad) gets a nomination, it would be like DC Bond getting the good stuff and Pierce's Bond getting the bad stuff. Plus, it would be like putting DC's Bond in the same room as Darth Vader and Homer Simpson as they're icons. Now this is bad image and a defilement of the meaning of pop culture. DC's Bond and Oscar nominations DO NOT MIX! I have said this before, and I will say it again: you should be glad neither CR nor QOS got any Oscar nominations, not even in the technical category. This is why Bond 23 must be forgotten (especially in the high profile American movie awards) as well as crashing and burning down.

And remember this well.....there shall be no peace if Bond 23 gets even a single Oscar nomination in the technical field. And you may well hire Carrot Top or The Blue Man Group as Bond. That should be a response of how stupid the Academy really is if they give Bond 23 a nomination.

BJ, you know what I'm talking about here.

[Blowfeld]

FBF, I give up. Whatever state of emergency you live in, I hope you enjoy it.

[FormerBondFan]

FBF, I give up. Whatever state of emergency you live in, I hope you enjoy it.

Perhaps BJ should lecture you of what I'm saying then hopefully you and all other Anti-Craigs (who are just as confused as you are of what I'm saying) here will understand. This is war, and opinions DON'T mean a thing unless an action has been carried out successfully.

[Blowfeld]

BJ can lecture me?!!?!?

I have been as patient as the Pope with you and now you are lecturing me on this! What are we supposed to do storm the Bastille?

You know what. Whatever. Do what you want, I don't have to listen to it any more.

Didn't realize the rest of us (life long fans long before Pierce and will be long after Daniel Craig) were not good enough for you.

[bjmdds]

FBF gets very wrapped up in his contempt for Eon ATTEMPTING to do WHATEVER they can to bring a Hollywood award home to them. It is true that Bond 23 should not win ANY awards whatsoever. This will only augment the green vegetable's ego which has been the root of all evil with the franchise. Music scores will not keep DC around but any positive reactions to the drivel being set forth by Eon in Bond 23 will vindicate Boar-bara in her own mind. Do not worry FBF, "let Eon not ask for whom the bell tolls.........it tolls for them", after this mess of a film is finished, music or no music.

[FormerBondFan]

It is true that Bond 23 should not win ANY awards whatsoever.

But what about not getting nominated?

Music scores will not keep DC around but any positive reactions to the drivel being set forth by Eon in Bond 23 will vindicate Boar-bara in her own mind.

Bond 23 get nominations from the Oscars is nothing more than a bad image.

[Dr. No]

er....um..I liked Arnold, I think it will be a lesser movie without him. I wish he had scored GoldenEye.

I know this new guy has won awards but I don't remember his music off the top of my head and I remembered Arnold from Stargate (in the theaters). Arnold did a good job with Bond and if we couldn't have Barry then Arnold was a good second.



(Blowfeld did just quit did he?)

[Dr. No]

Let me add Bond needs a vibrant score, it has to be larger than life like Bond used to be. The last I heard Arnold was CR and that was a very poor score to leave on since it missed all the traditional music.

[bjmdds]

If you surround trash with gold, it will still remain trash. Eon believes that by surrounding the 'egg with all of these Hollywood goodies that DC will prevail. Forget it green one It won't work and why is Sony going along with this?

[FormerBondFan]

Great or not, I hope the Academy doesn't give Newman an Oscar nomination for Bond 23.

[FormerBondFan]

Let me add Bond needs a vibrant score, it has to be larger than life like Bond used to be.

Bond 23 doesn't deserve a vibrant score. In fact, it doesn't even deserve have to anything good.....not even ONE!

[FormerBondFan]

If you surround trash with gold, it will still remain trash.

But it will still defile the pop culture image.

[Kristatos]

FBF, I give up. Whatever state of emergency you live in, I hope you enjoy it.

Perhaps BJ should lecture you of what I'm saying then hopefully you and all other Anti-Craigs (who are just as confused as you are of what I'm saying) here will understand. This is war, and opinions DON'T mean a thing unless an action has been carried out successfully.

You know, if everyone here is confused about what you're saying, then maybe the problem doesn't lie with us. What action are you talking about? What influence do you think anybody here has on the Academy?

[shaken not stirred]

Ah man I hated that guys music in american beauty (but I hated american beauty as well), whoever composed the music for lost would be a much better choice and that still wouldn't fit.