MovieScore Magazine recently ran through their top-10 most anticipated film scores for 2010. Scores that are on my list, too, include:
The Chronicles of Narnia 3 by David Arnold. Other than his Bond scores, David Arnold has been fairly quiet the last several years. And unfortunately so. Here’s hoping the fantasy-enriched film will inspire him to write another Independence Day.
Alice in Wonderland by Danny Elfman. Tim Burton plus Danny Elfman. Not much more needs to be said.
The Last Airbender by James Newton Howard. I’ve already posted the trailer scored by JNH and mentioned he usually doesn’t disappoint, especially for an M. Night Shyamalan film. I trust more exciting music will be waiting for us.
Iron Man 2 by John Debney. I’m wishing for a score to rival his masterpiece for Cutthroat Island. I can dream, right?
Robin Hood by Marc Streitenfeld. Marc who you ask? Yeah, that’s what I asked, too. This is a Ridley Scott film, so I assumed Hans Zimmer would be composing. Officially, he’s not, but since Marc is one of Hans’s goons, no doubt this will sound as if Zimmer composed it. And I’m sure I’ll be very pleased. Will this be in the vein of Zimmer’s masterful Gladiator or the less-serious-but-still-exciting King Arthur? Here’s hoping for the former.
Perhaps, though, for me, the most anticipated film score, should the rumors be true, is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1). According to HP producer David Heyman, should John Williams’s schedule permit, he’ll be scoring the film. Williams’s last Potter score for The Prisoner of Azkaban was his best Potter score, the best in the series (thus far), and one of his best scores. Since I’m on the wishing train here, I’m hoping that with this being the last Potter film and given what he has shown he can do with a Potter score, Johnny can blow us away.
Here’s to an exciting 2010 in film-score-land!
