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Feb 27, 2016 - 1:08 PM
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John Mullin
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In this interview in The Advertiser, Randy Newman says:
"I’m doing ‘Cars III,’ another movie, and then ‘Toy Story IV.’"
then later
“You sorta get typecast. I haven’t been getting a lot of offers for dramatic pictures since I’ve done all those animated pictures (“Toy Story (1-4),” “A Bug’s Life,” “Monsters Inc.,” “Cars,” “Monster University,” “The Princess and the Frog” and “James and the Giant Peach), that’s what I’ve been doing. You get typecast doing one thing. But I’m going to be doing a live action picture coming up.”
http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/2016/02/26/newman-putin-people-politics-music/80954782/
The director of CARS 3 is Dan Scanlon, who previously directed MONSTERS UNIVERSITY.
Cool news on both fronts. I wonder what the live action picture is? I like LEATHERHEADS (his most recent live-action score to date, which was back 2008), but it was sort of a living cartoon, and the score followed suit. As Newman himself seems to say, I'd love for him to get a live-action drama to score one of these days.
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I thought Cars was good music (much better than Cars 2) and Toy Story 3 was excellent, so I'm pleased he's doing both of those; but I've always thought it was a pity he didn't do more "grown-up" films since he was so good at them. Avalon, Awakenings - they're genuinely great. Hope whatever the movie is allows that sort of thing rather than another Leatherheads.
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Amazing score. Probably his best ever. Just WOW.
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Amazing score. Probably his best ever. Just WOW.
Appreciate you chiming in on this thread, but that's a bit much. Have you heard any Randy Newman scores before? There are enjoyable bits, like the lead-up to McQueen's crash and the Pleasantville-esque music for a sequence toward the latter half of the movie, but best ever is a bit much!
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Amazing score. Probably his best ever. Just WOW.
Better than The Natural, Avalon and A Bug's Life? Tall order, there.
I was about ten or fifteen minutes in and I thought "THIS is Randy Newman?" I always knew he was talented and I always knew he wasn't just "quirky Americana guy". But this is the first time I've actually heard him do it.
The big race at the end re-uses a lot of his themes from Cars. But the first hour of the film is pretty unique.
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I must be listening to something else, because I think this score is far from Newman's "best ever" 
I even notice bits resembling his rejected AFO here and there, don't know if this is a good or a bad thing...
Anyway, I must be the only one here who actually preffer the music of Cars 2 over 1 or 3.
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