Warner Bros has officially confirmed that Alexandre Desplat will be back as the composer for the last installment in the Harry Potter series Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. While Desplat’s attachment to the project has been expected given his involvement in the first part of the final book adaptation, there has been […]
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Alexandre Desplat to finish Harry Potter series
Posted: November 8, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, John Williams
Alexandre Desplat to score The Gardener
Posted: October 31, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, La fille du puisatier, The Burma Conspiracy, The Gardener, The King's Speech, The Tree of Life
UPDATE (February 24, 2011): The Gardener has recently received a new title: A Better Life. Alexandre Desplat has been hired to score the upcoming drama The Gardener. In the movie, a gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for […]
Expanded Fantastic Mr. Fox score released
Posted: March 3, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandre Desplat, The Fantastic Mr. Fox
ABKCO Records just released an expanded version of Alexandre Desplat’s score from Fantastic Mr. Fox (The Abbey Road Mixes). The album includes 47 minutes of the Academy-Award nominated score. The release comes as a surprise, especially since 24 minutes of the score has already been released on the official soundtrack including the songs featured in the […]
Desplat to score The Special Relationship
Posted: February 28, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews, Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Tamara Drewe, The Special Relationship
Alexandre Desplat has been announced to score the drama The Special Relationship. The project traces former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair’s relationships with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The movie is directed by Richard Loncraine who previously directed the action thriller Firewall which also had a score by Desplat. The film also marks another collaboration […]