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So that’s supposed to be a teaser somehow : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjG7Hi7IRkM
I hope it’s not related to film’s issues but I doubt it :
– Winter fits the film better
– March 2016 looked like a pretty busy month to release itAnyway, I guess there’s no chance Alice 2 and Peregrine will collide in Elfman’s schedule now…
I think this has been the plan for a while. I thought it was odd he was on Alice before Miss Peregrine, especially considering how those CG movies only come together at the last minute, so this makes sense.
I’m disappointed by this…But there are still quite a lot of projects coming, I guess. Still, I have the feeling that news about Elfman are becoming less and less frequent, lately.
As long as it’s just a one-off…
Everyone went nuts over Newman scoring Bridge of Spies and it ultimately ended up being a non-issue really, though a Star Wars score around the corner probably had a lot to do with that. If Burton’s next movie really is Beetlejuice 2 there’s surely no way Elfman won’t be on that…
With the film still being a year away, this feels like a decision and not a schedule issue. Unless there are major unannounced projects for Elfman at that time.
The movie will be finished long before Christmas. Bridge of Spies was finished ages before release, but Williams couldn’t fit it in his schedule because Spielberg needed the music ‘early’ so he could finish it and move onto BFG. I really think that’s what’s happened here. Post-production doesn’t wait for any composer. If Elfman has Alice until early next year and then a violin concerto for Summer Elfman doesn’t have the power to ask them to wait for him, nobody does.
Big Eyes had a Christmas release and recorded in February. Burton was well into pre-production for Miss Peregrine by the time Big Eyes came out. He’s not going to sit around and tweak it all year. Add that to this being on the Kraft-Engel site back when it had a March 2016 release date and I think it’s the logical conclusion.
He finished Tulip Fever in July and is now half-way through Alice in December, there’s a big gap there that may have been for Miss Peregrine when it had the March release. He also mentioned having to turn down ‘Pee Wee’s Big Holiday’ which has a March release date because he was already booked.
I know that films can be completed way before their release date but in this case, we just don’t know where’s the production’s at. It was probably pushed back to December 2016 because it fits the season better but there wasn’t an official statement about it nor any kind of rumour. It’s just weird.
Anyway, if Elfman isn’t really doing it, I’m rooting for Desplat.
For sure, I think their aesthetics would fit really well. He does have a little Star Wars movie out around then though.
True, true!
He does have a big slate this year but doesn’t he always? I was googling about and Desplat was actually at the Moma event and they met up in Cannes.
Apparently Mike Highman and Matthew Margeson are writing the score.
Highman has Burton/Elfman connections which supports the idea of Danny simply being too busy…
Yeah…seems to just be a schedule thing. Was bound to happen sometime. I don’t think it was like “screw you Danny, I’m gonna get these two random guys to write the score instead.” If a big name was replacing him, I’d be more suspicious, but I suspect they’re stepping in to do what Danny might have done, might even use his themes like with 9.
I know I’m a broken record but if this records in a few weeks and Danny was still recording Alice 2 this week it definitely seems like a timing issue.
Yes it does seem so. Pushing back Burton film’s release date really didn’t change its production schedule. Was Alice 2 always set to be released in May ?
I hope the music will be great (what an opportunity for those two) but I will always watch that film thinking “What if Elfman…. ?”.
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