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Marc Streitenfeld has recently composed the music for the upcoming Poltergeist remake. The film is directed by Gil Kenan (Monster House, City of Ember) and stars Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie Dewitt, Jared Harris, Kyle Catlett, Saxon Sharbino, Kennedi Clements and Jane Adams. The movie follows the Bowen family, whose life is suddenly disrupted after a supernatural force takes over their home and begins terrorizing them. David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole, Oz the Great and Powerful, Robots) has written the screenplay. Sam Raimi & Robert Tapert (Evil Dead, Drag Me to Hell, The Grudge) are producing the project for Ghost House Pictures, alongside Roy Lee (The Lego Movie, Dark Water). The original Poltergeist movies and its sequels featured music by Jerry Goldsmith. Poltergeist is set to be released on July 24, 2015 by 20th Century Fox.
Streitenfeld who previously scored such films as American Gangster, Robin Hood, Prometheus, The Grey and Body of Lies also recently scored the pilot for the Amazon Studios drama Hand of God, which has been picked up to series last month.
http://filmmusicreporter.com/2014/10/31/marc-streitenfeld-scoring-poltergeist-remake/
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Every mgm movie remake has flopped. You'd think Hollywood would get the message.
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This will be an uphill battle, IMO.
The film will have to be extra good to at least not make fans of the original (like me) angry.
And no score would be able to equal Goldsmith´s work.
But I try to keep an open mind. I liked Streitenfeld´s score for "Prometheus". And since this remake is not directed by Ridley Scott there is a chance that this score will only be done by Streitenfeld.
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Nov 2, 2014 - 11:05 AM
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Francis
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For me it will never be as great as the original Poltergeist only because I experienced watching this movie in my childhood and the impact back then of it and its sequel left an impression. Also, the dominant 80s feel with middle class family, the suburbs look, ... It will be hard to update the concept given that there have been so many movies and recent ones as well that tapped into that well. I thought both Insidious movies did a great job of presenting a modern version Poltergeist story.
I'm not expecting much of this version, the director's City of Ember I ultimately found trite, to have Sam Raimi on board for this does translates in some quality control but Spielberg he is not. As for the score, well, I don't think we'll get the same kind of ingenuity 30 years later (that goes for many of the departments of this movie, special effects mainly). Maybe it'll still be a fun movie, who knows.
Seeing this thread its one of those "it had to happen sooner or later". The only positive aside from Sam Raimi might be the absence of the names Michael Bay and Steve Jablonsky. 
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Nov 3, 2014 - 3:17 AM
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Thor
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For me it will never be as great as the original Poltergeist only because I experienced watching this movie in my childhood and the impact back then of it and its sequel left an impression. Also, the dominant 80s feel with middle class family, the suburbs look, ... It will be hard to update the concept given that there have been so many movies and recent ones as well that tapped into that well. I thought both Insidious movies did a great job of presenting a modern version Poltergeist story.
This is pretty much my exact thoughts too. Plus, I'm skeptical of MOST remakes in general (unless the original is very old or shitty).
That being said, the proof is in the pudding. It never ceazes to amaze how the FSM crowd loves to draw quick (and often negative) value judgements without knowing anything about how it looks or sounds.
I was skeptical of Streitenfeld when I first discovered him, but I've come to appreciate much of his work, even the Scott stuff. For some reason, I thought he was steering away from film music after his departure from the director, but I guess not. I'm EXPECTING directionless drones (like I do in most horror films -- not my cup of listening tea!), but reserve my right to be positively surprised.
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) and is more a fun house movie than a horror movie. A fun movie to be sure but it was never really scary. 
