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It’s deadsville around here. Movie Pilot is reporting that Danny Elfman is scoring David O. Russell’s (SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK) new film due out in December.
http://moviepilot.com/stories/1067002-first-look-at-david-o-russell-s-american-hustle
And here:
http://www.squidoo.com/american-hustle-soundtrack
Nothing has been officially stated by Elfman’s camp, but it looks like a great movie regardless with a potentially short score – much like SILVER LININGS.
Yeah loads of sites have Elfman listed but not a single one is reputable. I guess we’ll see. Elfman said he liked O’Russell and O’Russell did say he thought Elfman’s score was perfect.
I dunno whether this counts as confirmation or not, but since it also mentions Big Eyes and Mr Peabody(which no other site has reported yet) it seems legit.
http://www.scotsman.com/what-s-on/music/danny-elfman-s-new-big-adventure-in-music-1-3116992
I just saw an early screening of this film, they said it wasn’t totally done but it looked finished to me. I thought it was great, particularly the performances which were spectacular from all involved. I can confirm that Danny Elfman wrote the music (he was listed in the end credits) and the score is quite nice, not really like anything he’s done before, mostly loungey-trumpet stuff (for want of a better description) and some minimalist string bits which sounded very Elfman, a main theme on piano which is somewhat comparable to his Silver Linings one but a bit more upbeat (and not as memorable in my opinion, but not bad). There’s very little score, even less than Silver Linings I’d say, so I wouldn’t expect a score album, even a short one like SLP had, but certainly enough for a nice suite or two on a song album. But as I said what I saw was a work in progress so maybe more music will be added (or maybe taken away completely as Elfman said almost happened on SLP!).
Thanks for the confirmation, the movie does look terrific. Hopefully there’s still a MP3 release. A lot of the Silver Linings release was padding that never made the film.
Elfman says he finishes the score this week.
http://www.bigissue.com/features/interviews/3130/danny-elfman-interview-daunting-extreme
Soundtrack album features one Elfman track, which can be sampled here.
Sounds like modern or mood jazz, something he never actually did. I thought he would only accept Big Band jazz scores. Too bad there’s no word on a score release, even in digital form…
Sony have a FYC for Elfman on their website. An indicator of a longer score or are they just promoting everything?
https://secure.sonypictures.com/movies/academy/foryourconsideration/?film=americanhustle
I uploaded Elfman’s track if anyone is interested.
I downloaded it from iTunes awhile back. It’s pretty nice…wish there were a brief score release a la SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK.
This movie is filled with amazing source music, but it also features a score by Danny Elfman.
It’s a very source-based movie but he did some amazing, key pieces of music, as he did with “Silver Livings Playbook.”
Is it true that Chris Tucker set you up?
Wow. That’s the first time I’ve heard that. Why does Chris Tucker know Danny Elfman?
Because of “Dead Presidents.”
Well, I love Chris and Chris might have had a role in there, but I don’t know. I honestly can’t remember.
Is Elfman someone who you’re looking to re-team with?
Well, I want to re-team with both: I want to work with Chris Tucker again and Elfman is now definitely a part of our process. We have a team that has a rhythm and we always end up in Danny’s studio. We took all this source music, and he knew it was going to be very source-y. But he very brilliantly put in the first score that starts the picture, when Irving leaves the suite to chase the mayor. It’s a perfect bit of score that fits the rest of the movie and the craziness that’s going on inside of these people. And he does that a bunch of times.
http://news.moviefone.com/2013/12/19/american-hustle-david-o-russell-interview/
He’s definitely a director I’d love to see him work with regularly. It allows him to explore very different territories…
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