Huh. Someone should cut that trailer together with Tarzan and Jungle Book. Lots of naked boys running through the trees coming to theaters near you this summer.
Huh. Someone should cut that trailer together with Tarzan and Jungle Book. Lots of naked boys running through the trees coming to theaters near you this summer.
Exact same shot of little boy jumping off a cliff from behind.
Was Howard Shore's score for this rejected? It now says that Daniel Hart is scoring this on both ImDb and on Wikipedia. I know that anyone can edit the information on there, but it does not seem like a joke seeing that Hart scored the director's earlier film.
Was Shore's score rejected or did he "just" abandon it?
Interview from December, he's asked about Pete's Dragon at the end of the interview. His reply is rather odd, especially considering he mentioned other upcoming projects. The good news is there's a guitar concerto in the works!
I finally watched this film the other day and found it to be a pleasing enough family adventure, reminding me a bit of things like Harry & The Hendersons and Free Willy. The score was generally quite nice, with some beautiful soaring and uplifting moments. I noticed a credit 'orchestrated and conducted by Kevin Kaska' who I know can make some great symphonic noises. Has Daniel Hart wrote many other scores like this? I know he generally creates more quirky and offbeat fare. And I remember reading that Kaska has previously 'helped out' on a Jon Brion animated score late in the game (ParaNorman).
Oh, and did we ever find out how far Howard Shore got into the scoring process on this film?
I love the film and the score. Highly underrated. I spin the soundtrack often, it's very beautiful. I also love the songs in the film and in the rarest of instances include them in my playlist.
Charming and underrated film. I love that you do not see a single computer or smartphone in the entire film. It is has a naturalistic and human quality that you would not expect from the material. The director smartly chose to treat the dragon literally, like a real animal, not a comic character. Nice to see Redford. And yes, the score has a nice pastoral and lilting character, sweet.
Charming and underrated film. I love that you do not see a single computer or smartphone in the entire film. It is has a naturalistic and human quality that you would not expect from the material. The director smartly chose to treat the dragon literally, like a real animal, not a comic character. Nice to see Redford. And yes, the score has a nice pastoral and lilting character, sweet.
It's a breath of fresh air. A deleted scene reveals the film takes place in 1981. The whole film is treated like its "real" just with fantasy elements. It's a film that has a nice leisure pace, The effects support the film not overwhelm it. The movie is in "full color", not the over saturation garbage we get nowadays. The kids in the film are well behaved and not brats. Every character is 3 dimensional, there's conflict over the dragon, but there isn't really a villain in the traditional sense.
