Danny Elfman to score Terminator Salvation
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Terminator Salvation is one of the most anticipated movies of 2009. People are anxious to see how the franchise continues as we will now finally see the war against the machines. One of most memorable things from the first two Terminator movies was the music. The music composed by Brad Fiedel still lives up to this day.
According to MTV Movies blog Danny Elfman is aboard to compose the score for Terminator Salvation. He states that the original Terminator theme is not in use yet nor that there’s a mandate to incorporate the theme in the new movie. However, he did leave the door open for it’s appearance in the movie.
Danny Elfman’s previous works include Spiderman 1 & 2, Wanted and The Kingdom.
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I’m pretty excited here. Sure, there’s a very minor chance this could become Elfman’s Planet of the Apes 2 (post-apocalyptic genre) or , but he’s been on way too much of a hot-streak this year. Finally a Terminator movie with a solid score! Feidel’s work may have the great main theme but the rest is amongst the most underachieving synth work I’ve ever heard. Beltrami’s work was only a bit better, featuring orchestra but also being mostly themeless and unmemorable.
On a witty side note, what if Elfman put his Oingo Boingo stylings into a film like this? It would probably be awful, I know, but part of me would still want to hear it, if only as a parody
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Jorn Tillnes Reply:
January 11th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
I’m very disappointed myself, I was actually quite shocked when I heard it. Brad Fiedel’s work on Terminator was stellar while Beltrami had no clue what he was doing (I still can’t believe he forgot the “Terminator sound” or even had themes).
Nevertheless an interesting but baffling choice. I just hope he re-uses a lot of Fiedel’s work and don’t continue where Beltrami left off. If Elfman can get into experimental mode like the excellent “The Kingdom”, it might still be very exciting, but I will be cautiously pessimistic for now and hope he surprises me.
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