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 Posted:   May 15, 2016 - 2:36 PM   
 By:   Washu   (Member)

New Morricone score coming it seems: http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/15/ennio-morricone-edith-stein-rose-winter

At the age of 87, following a nearly 60-year career in the entertainment industry, composer Ennio Morricone won his first competitive Oscar in February for scoring Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, and now the Italian legend has found his next musical project: creating the soundtrack for the upcoming Holocaust biopic A Rose in Winter.

Keller Edde Studios announced Sunday at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival that Joshua Sinclair (Gigolo, Judgment in Berlin) will write, direct, and produce the film, a Holocaust biopic revolving around Edith Stein, the only Jewish patron saint of Europe, who was killed by Nazis at Auschwitz on August 9, 1942 after fighting for women’s rights and gender equality in Germany. According to a press release, the film will tell Edith’s story from the perspective of a New York Times journalist, Michael Rosten, in the 1960s.

In addition to Morricone, three-time Oscar winner and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor, Apocalypse Now, Reds) will shoot the film, which is being produced by George Edde, Max Keller, and Micheline Keller. In addition to The Hateful Eight, Morricone has contributed music to other notable motion pictures over the years, including Cinema Paradiso, Bugsy, Once Upon a Time in America, and In the Line of Fire.

“This film sheds light on the story of an exceptional woman whose courage and tenacity demonstrated the interdependence of religions in the shaping of the Western world. This Judeo-Christian interdependence is extremely important in defining and preserving the identity of a Western world that is toying, once again, with the beast of anti-Semitism,” Sinclair said of the project via press release. “Very few people understand the greater significance of Edith Stein’s journey, and I feel compelled to make sure we all know more about her and what she stood for through this project.”

Further details on A Rose in Winter, including a release date and cast, have yet to be released.

 
 
 Posted:   May 16, 2016 - 10:51 AM   
 By:   Alessoundtrack   (Member)

Great news! smile smile smile

 
 Posted:   May 17, 2016 - 9:10 AM   
 By:   PollyAnna   (Member)

Sounds like a really intersting project for the Maestro. I'll be very interested in this

 
 
 Posted:   May 17, 2016 - 10:44 AM   
 By:   Morricone   (Member)

Unusual filmmaker! Controversial because he wrote SHAKA ZULU which purportedly was financed by South Africa as pro-apartheid but it really wasn't. In fact they hated it for portraying Zulus as strong warriors. Joshua Sinclair is also a doctor specializing in tropical diseases who has worked in India and Africa and is a professor in comparative theology. Morricone loves challenges. No wonder he hooked up with this guy.

 
 
 Posted:   May 15, 2018 - 10:56 PM   
 By:   DS   (Member)

According to this article, the composer is now Franco Piersanti.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3771701

It has also been updated on IMDB:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5725348/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm

It's hard to imagine Ennio Morricone being rejected at this late date, though I know it's happened before. It's also possible he had to withdraw at some point after signing on (maybe he even had to do this at the last minute) & his departure from the project wasn't reported.

 
 Posted:   May 15, 2018 - 11:01 PM   
 By:   Lokutus   (Member)

He recorded something like half a year ago, which still hasn't been released. So perhaps this was it.

 
 Posted:   May 16, 2018 - 6:11 AM   
 By:   PatrickB   (Member)

He recorded something like half a year ago, which still hasn't been released. So perhaps this was it.

Recorded at Prague, isn't it ? I am surprised because Morricone left the project a couple of years ago, because of the director's (medical) troubles.
But anyway, it is a rather old project for the director and Morricone, because we commented it on the Morricone forum (now dead, since around 2012). I remember someone wrote there that he cmosed several themes, so in 2011-2012 or circa.
A pity this music couldn't be used ...

 
 Posted:   May 16, 2018 - 8:56 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Hopefully, if he recorded enough, some label will put it out.

 
 Posted:   May 16, 2018 - 12:02 PM   
 By:   WagnerAlmighty   (Member)

Besides Williams, the greatest film composer alive imo (and yes I do like some Zimmer).

I'll be all over whatever he does today, at least partly because he truly is part of an age I so love in film scoring. I am a big fan of both the Hateful Eight and Once Upon a Time in America scores, among so many others.

 
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