James Horner replaced as 'Good Shepherd' composer
"Titanic" composer James Horner started out this derby year with three shots at the Oscar: "The Good Shepherd," "All the King's Men" and "Apocalypto." His hope for "King's Men" probably got shot down along with Willie Stark when film critics took aim at the remake of the 1949 Oscar best-picture champ. Now he's down to just "Apocalypto." Horner and director Robert De Niro had creative differences over "Shepherd," so the film score is now being done (and that means right now, given the film's December release) by Marcelo Zarvos ("Hollywoodland") and Bruce Fowler (an orchestrator who composed "additional music" to Hans Zimmer's score of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," which isn't eligible now because so much was pickup from "Curse of the Black Pearl").
Kris Tapley of InContention.com broke the news about Horner's departure, but didn't provide the names of the composers who took over.
Photo: Robert De Niro has had his hands full directing "The Good Shepherd," considering all of the A-Listers involved both on the screen (like Angelina Jolie, shown here with the boss) and off (music composer James Horner).
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James Horner is amazing, if only you know how many times he is asked to step in for other composers who have problems with a director.
Did you know he composed troy in 11 days. Yes, and it's a perfect score for that film.
Even Hans Zimmer thinks he has a great sound, and I am surprised that the master himself will score this one as I thought he wanted to take a year off! ah well, at least the niro has his way.
amazing still.... hans to replace james...
Posted by: Johan | November 21, 2006 at 01:46 PM
He's the director of the movie, so he puts what he thinks is right for the movie.
Posted by: Mike. B. | November 02, 2006 at 04:45 PM
How can De Niro speaks about music¡¡ he is only an actor ¡¡ That´s a shame .
Horner is one of the bests film composers in the world, Who is De Niro to say anything ¡¡
Posted by: oscar | November 02, 2006 at 03:55 PM
DeNiro probably heard what Horner was writing and said "Wait a minute - that's the same music from TROY, ENEMY AT THE GATES and WILLOW. And that other cue is from START TREK II, III, ROCKETEER and KRULL. Write something original or get out of here!"
Even one of Hans Zimmer's intern clones is preferable to another rehashed Horner score.
Posted by: Scott | November 02, 2006 at 08:19 AM
A Shame. Horner has always been my favorite composer, and the idea of him and De Niro working together was exciting to me. I hope we will eventually find out just what those 'creative differences' were.
Posted by: Nick | October 31, 2006 at 08:23 AM