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 Posted:   Aug 22, 2017 - 5:02 PM   
 By:   Zooba   (Member)

My recent FANT4STIC post got me thinking about this.

Here's the ones I can think of:

FANT4STIC Marco Beltrami and Philip Glass
BATMAN BEGINS and THE DARK KNIGHT Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard
LAST OF THE MOHICANS Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman
THE EGYPTIAN Alfred Newman and Bernard Herrmann

Please share more you know of. Thanks.

And your thoughts as well. Does one movie really need two composers?

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 22, 2017 - 5:13 PM   
 By:   Tango Urilla   (Member)

Of course Batman Begins with Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard.

David Arnold and Michael Price on Sherlock.

Marco Beltrami and Marilyn Manson on Resident Evil (taking over for Clint Mansell I believe).

More recently, Clint Mansell and Lorn Balfe with Kevin Kiner and one other on Ghost in the Shell.

Then there's Daft Punk and Joseph Trapanese on TRON: Legacy and M83 and Trapanese on Oblivion. These pairings I understand better than the others with Trapanese bringing his orchestral skills and the music groups bringing their own sounds and ideas.

But the others—especially HZ and JNH on the Batmans—I don't understand the need for two or how exactly their collaboration process worked.

 
 Posted:   Aug 22, 2017 - 5:35 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Heil & Klimek regularly score movies together.


Separately...

David Newman recorded a replacement score for "How to Make Love Like an Englishman", but in the end he and Stephen Endelman each get their own separate screen credits in the opening of the film.



And there are regular duos like:
The Newton Brothers
And on season three of"First Wave", The Collision Brothers (tried searching but couldn't identify who that was comprised of)

 
 Posted:   Aug 22, 2017 - 6:19 PM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

Not sure if Jones and Edelman count as they really weren't collaborating in any way. That's like listing Henry Mancini and Michael Kamen for Lifeforce, or Hans Zimmer and Basil Poledouris for White Fang. They are the odd pair out, at the very least.

But I'm surprised you've forgotten the brothers Danna, who regularly score films together (i.e. The Good Dinosaur). Other talented composing teams: Sawtell & Shefter, Morgan & Stromberg, Wendy & Lisa (Heroes), Jon Ehrlich & Jason Derlatka (incredible JNHesque orchestral work for the TV series Invasion)...

Aside from Sawtell & Shefter, there was a lot of other regular composer collaboration in the Golden Age beyond the famous Newman/Herrmann masterpiece of The Egyptian. Much of it happened at Universal (and much sadly uncredited), but it happened a lot at Fox too -- Friedhofer worked extensively with Newman on multiple occasions including The Bravados and The Mark of Zorro (and Broken Arrow, though that was Alfred contributing just one great cue to Hugo's excellent score).

Yavar

 
 Posted:   Aug 22, 2017 - 6:29 PM   
 By:   Steve H   (Member)

The Golden Seal - John Barry/Dana Kaproff

I'm sure Barry could have scored this entire film blindfolded but obviously there were time constraints.

 
 Posted:   Aug 22, 2017 - 6:29 PM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

Richard Band collaborated with Joel Goldsmith and Shirley Walker on occasion as well...

Yavar

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 22, 2017 - 7:00 PM   
 By:   nerfTractor   (Member)

RAVENOUS by Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn is a fine collaboration.

Howard Shore shared writing credit to some degree with Ornette Coleman on NAKED LUNCH, another very successful effort.

It really seems like there are many more but this is all I’ve got at the moment.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 22, 2017 - 7:03 PM   
 By:   nerfTractor   (Member)

Oh also, two Fincher scores with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross sharing credit and even an Oscar for THE SOCIAL NETWORK.

 
 Posted:   Aug 22, 2017 - 7:31 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Spider-Man 3
Mummy 3

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 22, 2017 - 7:32 PM   
 By:   ClaytonMG   (Member)

Armageddon - Trevor Rabin was hired but after about 2 weeks he required help and I believe it was Jerry Bruckheimer's idea to get Harry Gregson-Williams involved. I also believe Harry Gregson-Williams (along with Steve Jablonsky and Don Harper) wrote more than half the score. In fact when Trevor Rabin's credit shows up in the opening, it's not even music by him that's playing. We don't hear any of his cues until Bruce Willis is introduced. Then when it came time to put an album out, Trevor Rabin wanted only his music on it, hence the length of the album and the fact it's missing key moments and an entire theme. Still waiting for an official release featuring Harry Gregson-Williams (superior) score.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 23, 2017 - 5:19 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

THE ROCK - Hans Zimmer, Nick Glennie-Smith (plus HGW and Don Harper). Several other Zimmer scores as well.

Didn't KICK-ASS have like a million different composers who all provided score cues, but that didn't necessarily collaborate?

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 23, 2017 - 7:06 AM   
 By:   Kim Peterson   (Member)

KUNG FU PANDA 1 & 2 - POWELL AND ZIMMER - #1 is one of the few Zimmer scores I own and the Powell I play the least.

 
 Posted:   Aug 23, 2017 - 8:23 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Garry McDonald and Laurie Stone have been regularly scoring TV series, TV movies, and some films, for at least three decades now. There's no much the two haven't scored together.


Also, I don't know what the story behind this was, but both Michael Kamen and Herbie Hancock for "Action Jackson".

 
 Posted:   Aug 23, 2017 - 8:23 AM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

Better are the three delightful, energetic, and creative collaborations between John Powell and Harry Gregson-Williams: Antz, Chicken Run, Shrek.

Yavar

 
 Posted:   Aug 23, 2017 - 12:50 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Mychael Danna also has done some stuff with Rob Simonson, including the terrible "Dollhouse" TV series.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 23, 2017 - 9:29 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

Ennio and Andrea for Cinema Paradiso

 
 Posted:   Aug 23, 2017 - 12:52 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Early on, Michael Convertino shared co-composing efforts on two or three things with David Newman.


Peter Golub and James Newton Howard are both credited for "The Great Debators".


 
 Posted:   Aug 23, 2017 - 1:01 PM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

Mychael Danna also has done some stuff with Rob Simonson, including the terrible "Dollhouse" TV series.

Hey. Dollhouse took a while to get going, and the ending episode was just awful, I grant you. But in between there was a lot of fantastic stuff.

Yavar

 
 Posted:   Aug 23, 2017 - 1:57 PM   
 By:   MusicMad   (Member)

Ennio and Andrea for Cinema Paradiso

I think that one's a little tenuous, TG, given Andrea is credited with only the Love theme ...

How about the Maestro's collaborations with Bruno Nicolai, such as: Dalle Ardenne All'inferno (Dirty Heroes) (1967) and Operation Kid Brother (OK Connery) (1967) ... there were probably others.

And back to John Barry: he collaborated with Ken Thorne on Murphy's War (1971) and They Might Be Giants (1971) ... though it may be that the former left the project after providing a main theme or two ...

Notice how both films in each pairing are for the same year smile

Mitch

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 23, 2017 - 3:22 PM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

Ennio and Andrea for Cinema Paradiso

I think that one's a little tenuous, TG, given Andrea is credited with only the Love theme ...



Maybe so, but I was feeling left out, so.... smile

So how about Ennio and Gillo Pontecorvo for Battle of Algiers?

 
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