Varèse Sarabande and Craft Recordings have announced a new picture disc release of the score album for DreamWorks Animation’s 2001 feature Shrek directed by Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson and starring Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz & John Lithgow. The album features the film’s original music composed by Harry Gregson-Williams (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Martian, Kingdom of Heaven, Mulan, The Meg, Man on Fire, Chicken Run) and John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon, Wicked, The Bourne Identity, Solo: A Star Wars Story, X-Men: The Last Stand, Happy Feet). The collectible vinyl features newly designed character artwork, including a hero image of the film’s protagonists on side A and Shrek and Fiona on side B will be released on August 28 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A Barnes & Noble-exclusive variant offering alternate film imagery will also be coming out on the same day. A newly reissued CD edition will be released alongside the vinyl, while the original score album is now available to stream/download on digital platforms.
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Harry Gregson-Williams to Score Andrew Adamson’s ‘Mister Pip’
Harry Gregson-Williams has mentioned in a recent interview with Animated Views that he has just started to work on the score for the indie drama Mister Pip. The movie is directed by Andrew Adamson who has collaborated with the composer on the director’s previous movies, including the first two Shrek films and the first and second installment in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Mister Pip is based on the novel by Lloyd Jones and stars Hugh Laurie as last the white man left on the war-torn island of Bougainville, in Papua New Guinea who reads the kids his favorite novel, Great Expectations. A young girl conjures the novel’s Victorian characters and befriends Pip who helps her to endure the violence and moral uncertainty of her daily life. Kerry Fox, Alliv Samson and Eka Darville are co-starring. Adamson is producing the Olympus Pictures and Eyeworks production with Leslie Urdang & Dean Vanech (Rabbit Hole, Beginners) and Robin Scholes (Once Were Warriors).