Also, in other news, Brian Tyler has confirmed that he did NOT score Fast and Furious 6. He was unable to due to Spanish Tax Incentive requiring a Spanish composer AND because he was also scoring Iron Man 3 at the same time
I'm guessing that Lucas Vidal is probably going to score the film now. He's Spanish and has experience with genre-type material.
Another possibility is Fernando Velazquez but I can't see him coming near an empty tentpole with no substance (The Impossible will be probably be the closest he does to a "big" movie).
Another possibility is Fernando Velazquez but I can't see him coming near an empty tentpole with no substance (The Impossible will be probably be the closest he does to a "big" movie).
Why do you say this. Has he indicated anywhere that he doesn't want big projects? He's certainly done emptyish ones . . . this is, after all, the guy who scored Devil, Sexykiller, Julia's Eyes, etc. He's certainly no stranger to thrillers and horror and comedy and not necessarily of the exemplary end of those genres, either.
Anyway, Lucas Vidal does seem likely given his recent expansion into Hollywood genre flicks, but there's no shortage of Spanish composers working at the moment. Roque Baños, Alfons Conde, Alberto Iglesias, Zacarías M. de la Riva, Arnau Bataller, Luis Ivars, and that's just off the top of my head.
I am aware that Velazquez has worked in horror a number of times but I feel that his work in The Impossible will make him more of a name for prestige films and big Oscar fare. I see him going more in an Alberto Iglesias path than becoming a guy for studio tentpoles.
I thought of Roque Banos too but most of his work has been in small-time indie films (though Evil Dead could change that) and not the wider appeal movies that a guy like Vidal has been on.
Another possibility is Fernando Velazquez but I can't see him coming near an empty tentpole with no substance (The Impossible will be probably be the closest he does to a "big" movie).
Why do you say this.
Especially since the list of respected composers who've done shamelessly commercial movies, going back to the dawn of cinema, is practically endless (if Elliot Goldenthal can do Frida on one hand and S.W.A.T. on the other...).
Actually, he's been retweeting tweets from Fast Six director Justin Lin from the cutting room, and promotional tweets about a featurette and a first look of Fast Six recently, so my guess seems to be right!
