Film Music Reporter has learned that Marco Beltrami has taken over scoring duties on the comic book adaptation Jonah Hex. He is replacing John Powell, who reportedly was working on the score with the heavy metal band Mastodon last fall. No word yet if any of Mastodon’s music will stay in the picture. Jonah Hex is set in the Wild West, where a scarred bounty hunter tracks a voodoo practitioner bent on liberating the South by raising an army of the undead. The movie is directed by Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears A Who!) and stars Megan Fox, Josh Brolin, John Malkovich and Michael Shannon. Warner Bros has the movie scheduled to be released on June 18.
As previously reported, Beltrami also has the horror movies Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark and My Soul to Take, as well as the HBO movie The Sunset Limited coming up. The Beltrami-scored Sci-Fi-Thriller Repo Men premieres in theaters today. A soundtrack featuring one track from Beltrami’s score will be released on March 23 by Relativity Media, but no score album has been announced yet.
Here’s the album tracklisting:
| 1 Sway – Rosemary Clooney | |
| 2 Release Yo’ Delf [Prodigy Remix] – Method Man (remix) | |
| 3 54-46 Was My Number – Toots & the Maytals | |
| 4 Every Day Will Be Like a Holiday – William Bell | |
| 5 Feeling Good – Nina Simone | |
| 6 Sing It Back – Moloko | |
| 7 Nausea – Beck | |
| 8 Burn My Shadow – UNKLE | |
| 9 Love Lives – Dave Stewart | |
| 10 Every Day Will Be Like a Holiday – RZA | |
| 11 Dream a Little Dream of Me – The Mamas And The Papas | |
| 12 Repo Mambo – Marco Beltrami |
I like both their music so I’m not too fussed by the change, I would like to know the reason though.