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Maybe he's caught that director curse, where once you win an Oscar you have to spend the next 4-5 years mulling over what your next project should be.
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I worry he'll be the composer equivalent of a cinematographer like Andrzej Bartkowiak or Mikael Salomon, who decides they'd rather be a B-list director than an A-list DP.
Bartkowiak shot 11 Sidney Lumet films, Terms of Endearment, Prizzi's Honor and many other films before directing Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds, Cradle 2 the Grave, Doom and that lousy Street Fighter sequel.
Salomon shot The Abyss, Always, Backdraft and Far and Away before directing A Far Off Place, Hard Rain and a ton of television including those miniseries remakes of Salem's Lot, The Andromeda Strain and Coma.
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Jan de Bont is another great example. I suspect he had a lot to do with the quality of McTiernan's two best movies, Die Hard and The Hunt for Red October (though they also had terrific scripts, strong stories and were almost perfectly cast, none of which I could fairly attribute to the cinematographer).
I'm always reminded of the Milton quote (which of course i only know because of "Space Seed"), roughly that it is better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
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Instead of doing nothing, he could split it and do one score/one film a year, as possible. I mean, you got to make a paycheck at some point, right?
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Hate to say it but maybe hes been blacklisted by being so associated with Bryan singer for so long?
To be clear,im not saying hes guilty of anything but given whats happened to Singer and all the accusations and everything,maybe Ottman is persona non grata in hollywood now.
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Curiously, this weekend, i was listening (for the first time) his work in Invasion, i like it, it's good, nothing remarkable (specially when you compare with things like X2 or Jack, the Giant Slayer), but make a good impresion on me.
And no one remember his work in Valkyrie?, that movie (and score) are tremedously underrated.
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