FirstShowing.net recently posted a new interview with composer Danny Elfman. In the interview, Elfman talks about his score for Alice in Wonderland, working with Tim Burton, his two upcoming projects The Green Hornet and Restless and his creative approach and process to scoring movies. To read the entire interview, click here. The website also announces interviews with composers James Newton Howard, Michael Giacchino, Thomas Newman and Alexandre Desplat to be coming up in the near future.
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New audio interview with Danny Elfman
Film Music Magazine’s On the Score show just uploaded a new interview with composer Danny Elfman. In the 37 minutes interview, Danny Elfman talks about his score for Alice in Wonderland and his collaboration with Tim Burton, including such movies as Planet of the Apes, Edward Scissorhands and Mars Attacks. Most interestingly, Elfman also talks about his fallout wih Tim Burton that led him to leave Ed Wood in 1995. To listen to the complete interview, check out this link.
Elfman to score Gus Van Sant’s Restless
In a recent interview with Collider, Elfman confirmed that he will score Gus Van Sant’s upcoming drama Restless (previously untitled). The movie revolves around a teenage boy and girl who share a preoccupation with mortality. The movie is produced by Ron Howard and Bryce Dallas Howard. Restless stars Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland). Restless marks Elfman’s fifth collaboration with Van Sant after To Die For, Good Will Hunting, Psycho and Milk. A release date for the movie produced by Imagine Entertainment has yet to be announced.
Elfman will score the movie before he starts working on Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet. The comic book adaptation starring Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz and Tom Wilkinson. The movie is scheduled to be released this December by Sony Pictures.
In the interview, Elfman also talks about Alice in Wonderland, his working process and his motivations for choosing projects. He also goes into detail on what happened on The Wolfman. To listen to or read the whole interview, click here.
Elfman Oscar profile on Good Morning America
This morning, Danny Elfman was featured in ABC’s Good Morning America Oscar profile series, where he talked about what awards mean to him. Additionally, the profile showed Elfman working in his studio, as well as scoring session footage from Alice in Wonderland with Tim Burton. The video from the show can be streamed on the ABC News video page and on YouTube.
Elfman on Alice in Wonderland
Danny Elfman’s highly anticipated score for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland will be released by Walt Disney Records on March 2. To listen to clips from the soundtrack album, check out Walt Disney Records’ soundtrack page: http://disneymusic.disney.go.com/albums/aliceinwonderland.html
Elfman has already started to promote the score. Check out this interview with Elfman from the LA Times:
For an interview with Tim Burton conducted by Elfman, click here:
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/tim-burton/
More interviews and reports on the score can be expected soon.