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This is Jimmy’s Daily Planet’s 500th Blog Post!
It’s truly surreal to try to fathom this milestone. I cannot even imagine what the future holds or what #1,000 might be about or look like, let alone #501.
Pardon me, I need just a quick minute…
Before watching Interstellar for the second time yesterday (I highly recommend this movie!), a cornucopia of trailers blazed across the perfectly expansive IMAX screen, as well as our our five senses, to ensure at least one return visit to the cinema within the next several months. Yes, several months, including May 2015. Excluding the film about this group of avengers, one of the films that caught everyone’s attention was, Chappie, which tells the evolutionary story of how a robot seemingly built with scrap parts begins to (supposedly) feel emotions like humans.
Luckily, there are no frightening scenarios or consequences of machines with highly-advanced technology and a pulse entering society, right?
The presumed moral of the story and predictive nature of our future aside, the music used in the trailer sounds like something out of the future…and, fortunately, it sounds quite nice.
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Dawn of a Soundtrack
“Zimmer will only be scoring the Superman parts of the film, according to an interview he gave to Comic Book Resources, while Junkie XL is going to handle the Batman side of things, also scoring the movie. The idea of having two composer working against each other and together over the course of the film feeds directly into the nature of the film.”
–Drew McWeeny, Yahoo’s HitFix
Zack Snyder is proving to be a thoughtful and creative director of the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie, expected to be released in a year and a half in the middle of 2016.
Snyder is thoughtful because while he is again working with famed composer Hans Zimmer in a follow-up to Man of Steel (which Hans composed and Snyder directed), Snyder is respecting the mesmerizing and unforgettably epic soundtrack Hans created for Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed Dark Knight trilogy. This yet-to-be-release movie will feature a new Batman with a new creative team (except for David S. Goyer). It would have been easy (and quite frankly) expected for Snyder to reenlist Zimmer to scribe a new Batman theme. But, out of respect to the stand-alone trilogy and to Zimmer himself, Snyder has excitedly asked him to expand the already praised modern soundtrack to the current Superman: Henry Cavill.
Dawn of Justice will star a new Batman in a new story. And Superman’s story is just beginning, with the origin chapter now complete. So, well done Snyder, well done.
Snyder is creative because he is challenging and, in effect, daring a musical maestro, which has the thrilling potential to result in something quite magical. The process will likely be partly uncomfortable, and yet exciting for both composers. The battle royale of all battle royales in superhero culture will not only have an epic stage, but it will have an epic, multilayer musical journey. This arrangement of competing composers appears to be unprecedented, therefore its creativity reading is rightly off the Richter scale.
Still more than a year off into the horizon, it’s reassuring to read that the director of an upcoming cinematic adventure for the ages starring the two most storied superheros in history understands the gravitas of these characters and seems to be rising to the immense expectations of its dedicated and anxious fans.
That’s music to everyone’s ears.
The Wizarding World of Rap
Magical Rhymes: Third Floor, Hogwarts.
When Harry Potter, Hermione and Ron weren’t casting spells and saving Hogwarts from a myriad of evil spirits and forces, they were students in the world’s most exclusive school for wizards and magic. And as pupils, they learned a variety of skills that guided them through the best and worst of times. Unfortunately, one of these pivotal class sessions never saw the light of day in any of the eight Harry Potter major motion pictures.
Fortunately, Jimmy Fallon has a way of getting actors to admit secret skills on The Tonight Show that results in pure awesomeness. It’s just the ABC’s…
— Gryffindor Boys’ Dormitory, Def Magic Jams, After Hours —
Happy Monday!
The stars are beginning to align…
Interstellar will start premiering in theaters nationwide starting the middle of next week, providing movie fans with the most epic cinematic journey of the year. Directed and co-written by Christopher Nolan, this scientific theory-based space adventure is much more than just that. It will connect with moviegoers through family, love, mystery and survival, if the trailers are any indication. The premiere was held on the black carpet yesterday in Hollywood and this spectacular event is happy proof that months of filming and years of development is finally here for the world to see.
Not only are the trailers visually stunning, but the music has been equally mesmerizing. To kick of the workweek, below is the music from Interstellar’s fourth trailer:
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