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Armstrong was an arranger on Goldeneye (and I believe ghost wrote the Casino cue?)
Craig Armstrong arranged the theme song, written by Bono and The Edge and performed by Tina Turner, but I've never heard that he had any involvement with the score itself.
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I'll just toss out my vote that a talented female British composer (and there are a lot) should get a crack at Bond. Just sayin'.
Yavar
I doubt something like this gets even discussed at their end unless they somehow opt to go for a female Bond lead as well. Not sure how that might work out for this franchise though.
Oh, I know it's not getting discussed. My point is that it SHOULD be.  In other words, I'll have a bit less of a problem with Hans Zimmer scoring Wonder Woman (his own statements are still problematic), if a female composer even gets *considered* for Bond (which probably won't ever happen).
On the other hand I'm not for a female Bond. That would change the character too much IMO. (Totally fine with Doctor Who, who is a Time Lord after all...) Let there be new cool female secret agent characters instead.
Yavar
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Some thoughts about various things in this thread and some that are not:
1) Yavar, I really like your suggestion of Anne Dudley. She's exceptionally talented, and I think her Oscar for The Full Monty was very well deserved. It was brilliant, with a sort of sad-sack tango flavor and that low-rent melody that sounded a bit like a down-on-his Rocky. Her Jeeves and Wooster music was also very witty.
2) Debbie Wiseman would also be a good choice; she's expressed her admiration for John Barry in interviews.
3) I hope that whoever said that female composers would not be considered for Bond unless they cast a female as Bond was joking. If not, haven't we gotten past the point where Quincy Jones could only score black pictures and Lalo Schifrin could only write "latin" music? And if you were joking, it wasn't funnu.
4) I would not want a female Bond or a black Bond or an American Bond for the simple reason that it would not be Ian Fleming's James Bond. Which by the way we haven't had in a very long time. By all means, make a movie with a female spy, a black spy, an American spy. I wouldn't want Daniel Craig playing John Shaft, either.
5) I would love to see Bond go all the way back to the Ian Fleming cold-war fifties; jettison the gadgets, the stunts, the multiple climaxes, and all of the glitz.
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Choice of composer may not be the priority for Eon right now but Craig Armstrong would be an excellent choice.
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I'll have to dig out the album when I get home from work, but doesn't the liner notes list the composer/orchestrators/crew cue by cue? Or am I thinking of another one?
In any case, I absolutely hate that score but that Casino cue is very lush and beautiful and the string writing, if not by Armstrong, is definitely Armstrong influenced.
I don't have the album (I've never really liked any non-Barry Bond scores, with the exception of George Martin's 'Live and Let Die'), but I am certain Craig Armstrong only worked in the actual title song, which he arranged and conducted with a 70-plus orchestra. Serra's score, on the other hand, was orchestrated by John Altman and David Arch, and conducted by Altman. It is they who arranged the strings you hear in the Casino cue, and not Armstrong (and the music itself is entirely Serra's work).
Alex
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Cast Tom Hiddleston and go from there.
Time to reinvent Bond for a new generation.
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Works 4 me
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Inconceivable!
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