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Feb 26, 2015 - 7:41 PM
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David-R.
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John Ottman has officially signed on to score X-Men: Apocalypse. The film is directed by Bryan Singer and star Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Michael Fassebender, Nicholas Hoult, Evan Peters and Rose Byrne who return in their roles from X-Men: First Class and Days of Future Past. They are joined by new cast members Sophie Turner who will play Jean Grey, Alexandra Shipp as Storm, Tye Sheridan as Cyclops, Kodi Smit-McPhee as Nightcrawler, as well as Oscar Isaacs and Ben Hardy. Simon Kinberg who scripted the previous film in the franchise is writing the screenplay for the sequel, which takes place in the 1980s. Singer and Kinberg are also producing the project with Lauren Shuler Donner and Hutch Parker. Ottman will also once again serve as the film’s editor. The composer has previously scored and edited Singer’s X2 and last year’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. X-Men: Apocalypse is set to be released on May 27, 2016 by 20th Century Fox.
http://filmmusicreporter.com/2015/02/26/john-ottman-to-return-for-x-men-apocalypse/
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Not too surprising I guess with Singer once again directing. Hope it'll be more like X2 than Days of Future Past
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Which composer's podium is he picking the music up from?
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Ha, she's actually quite an accomplished vocalist, which I can only imagine would be a step up for Ottman.
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^ Wow
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Feb 27, 2015 - 7:33 PM
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SBD
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Should be good if it's John Ottoman. (sic)
Until about this time last year, I'd have not only believed this statement, but I'd have had it tattooed on my body a la The Illustrated Man...and getting tattooed freaks me out.
It was one thing for a score to a Liam Neeson thriller to be all loops and dissonance, but I still find it hard to put into words just how sad Ottman's DoFP score made me. Sure, there was his (who cares if it wasn't 100% original; it was memorable, dammit!) X2 main theme...but that's it. I couldn't hum a note of the DoFP score at gunpoint and I sure don't remember any other themes from that film; nothing to hang on to or anything even slightly hummable, evocative or lingering.
When Tyler Bates writes a better comic book score than you, it is time to take a good, hard look at your life.
Which is to say that (at least, given the scale of the movie teased in the DoFP post-credits cookie) I hope 'Jack the Giant Slayer' Ottman is allowed out...and that 'Days of Future Past' Ottman is taken behind the woodshed.
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I will never understand the hatred for Ottman. He's a terrific composer.
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Additional music by
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