Varese Sarabande will release a new deluxe edition soundtrack album for the 1997 noir thriller L.A. Confidential co-written and directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, James Cromwell, David Strathairn and Danny DeVito. The album features the expanded Academy Award-nominated original score from the film composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Chinatown, Planet of the Apes, Poltergeist, Basic Instinct, The Mummy, Total Recall), including previously unreleased music. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, November 18 (click here to stream/download). A limited edition CD version is expected to be available to order on the label’s official website tomorrow morning.
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Chad Fischer Scoring ‘Chasing Mavericks’
Chad Fischer is scoring the upcoming drama Chasing Mavericks. The film stars Jonny Weston as Jay Moriarty, a world champion surfer from Northern California who made his reputation surfing Mavericks north of Half Moon Bay before dying in a diving accident at age 22. Gerard Butler stars as Frosty Hesson, the local legend who took Jayunder his wing in order to train him. Taylor Handley, Elisabeth Shue and Abigail Spencer are co-starring. The true life story is directed by Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential, 8 Mile) and Michael Apted (The World is Not Enough, Nell) who took over the final weeks of production. Kario Salem (The Score) and Brandon Hooper have written the film’s script.
Marcelo Zarvos Scoring ‘Too Big to Fail’
Marcelo Zarvos is currently finishing up work on the score for the upcoming HBO drama Too Big to Fail. The film directed by Curtis Hanson offers an intimate look at the financial crisis of 2008 and the group of powerbrokers who decided the fate of the world’s economy in a matter of a few weeks. The movie stars William Hurt as President George W. Bush’s Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Paul Giamatti as Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernank, James Woods as Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld and Ed Asner as Warren Buffett. Also starring is Billy Crudup, Matthew Modine, Tony Shalhoub, Topher Grace, Kathy Baker, Bill Pullman, Michael O’Keefe and Cynthia Nixon. Too Big to Fail is based on the book by Andrew Ross Sorkin and adapted for the screen by Peter Gould (Breaking Bad).