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I also really like his score to James Cameron's The Abyss
Other composers for Star Trek movies
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My Wishlist (some of whom have already been posted earlier):
Past composers: Claude Debussy, Gustav Holst, Erik Satie, Aram Khachaturian.
Modern composers: Ludwig Göransson, Hans Zimmer, Bear McCready, Howard Shore, Jon Hopkins.
Past composers: Claude Debussy, Gustav Holst, Erik Satie, Aram Khachaturian.
Modern composers: Ludwig Göransson, Hans Zimmer, Bear McCready, Howard Shore, Jon Hopkins.
Bear McCreary or maybe Hans Zimmer. Actually, no 'maybe' for Zimmer.
The obvious answer is John Williams, who is for my money the greatest film composer (and possibly the greatest composer) of all time.
For something maybe a little more in the vein of James Horner and Jerry Goldsmith, I'd go with Alan Silvestri.
Obviously Michael Giacchino has made his mark with the Kelvin Timeline films and the Prodigy theme song. But I'd also be really interested to see what Bear McCreary or Ramin Djawadi would produce. Djawadi in particular just might be Giacchino's main competition for greatest film/TV composer alive after Williams.
For something maybe a little more in the vein of James Horner and Jerry Goldsmith, I'd go with Alan Silvestri.
Obviously Michael Giacchino has made his mark with the Kelvin Timeline films and the Prodigy theme song. But I'd also be really interested to see what Bear McCreary or Ramin Djawadi would produce. Djawadi in particular just might be Giacchino's main competition for greatest film/TV composer alive after Williams.
I usually don't really like Hans Zimmer's work, especially on The Dark Knight trilogy, which I feel had a score ill-suited to the character, and which made me wish Danny Elfman had just been brought back to do the score, as was rumored online during the lead up to the release of Batman Begins. I've heard very little else from Zimmer that I liked, save for maybe his score to The Lion King (the original, and not the live action remake) and Interstellar, which had a fantastic score.
ALL THAT BEING SAID,
I would absolutely KILL to see Zimmer take on Star Trek, and here's why. If Giacchino is the modern John Williams as many claim (and I agree with this assessment) then Zimmer is definitely the modern Jerry Goldsmith. From his use of powerful percussion to his fondness for synthesizers, and even his innovative approach to science fiction film score (Aside from Goldsmith, Zimmer is the only one to utilize a friggin' Pipe Organ in his score for a sci-fi film, in this case Interstellar) Zimmer is the obvious choice for a Star Trek film now that Goldsmith is gone. I'd also KILL to hear Zimmer do a cover concert of the theme to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, complete with his signature style as mentioned above. I truly believe Zimmer is WAY more suited to Star Trek than Batman, and he is more suited to Sci-Fi in general than any of his other work.
ALL THAT BEING SAID,
I would absolutely KILL to see Zimmer take on Star Trek, and here's why. If Giacchino is the modern John Williams as many claim (and I agree with this assessment) then Zimmer is definitely the modern Jerry Goldsmith. From his use of powerful percussion to his fondness for synthesizers, and even his innovative approach to science fiction film score (Aside from Goldsmith, Zimmer is the only one to utilize a friggin' Pipe Organ in his score for a sci-fi film, in this case Interstellar) Zimmer is the obvious choice for a Star Trek film now that Goldsmith is gone. I'd also KILL to hear Zimmer do a cover concert of the theme to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, complete with his signature style as mentioned above. I truly believe Zimmer is WAY more suited to Star Trek than Batman, and he is more suited to Sci-Fi in general than any of his other work.
Zimmer’s score for Interstellar is probably my favourite score for a sci-fi movie in the last decade.
Gerald Fried, who scored "Amok Time," turns 95 this week. If he's still working, he could bring a lot to a film with lots of Vulcan spectacle in it.
That is an interesting and somewhat apt comparison between Zimmer and Goldsmith in terms of their respective boundary-pushing and willingness to experiment sonically. They have very different compositional styles (Goldsmith being influenced by early-mid 20th century concert composers and Zimmer from pop/electronic arena) and approaches in how to score a film, but you're right that they both wanted to explore new sounds.
One correction, though, regarding your statement about Zimmer being the only one to use a pipe organ in a sci-fi film, is that Morricone used a pipe organ in his "Mission To Mars" (2000) score, Maurice Jarre also used one in his "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" (1985) score and you can even hear a pipe organ in the "Sunset on Genesis" cue from Horner's "Star Trek III" score. And yep, Goldsmith utilized a pipe organ in "Seconds" (1966) and lest we forget that Bernard Herrmann included the massive Fox studios pipe organ in "Journey To The Center of the Earth" (1959). In terms of non-original music for a sci-fi film, there is of course the "Also Sprach Zarathustra" concert classical piece by Strauss which features a pipe organ and opens "2001: A Space Odyssey".
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Apologies, I was a little tired when I made my post. It should have read "Aside from Goldsmith, Zimmer is the first composer I've observed to utilize a friggin' Pipe Organ in his score for a sci-fi film, in this case Interstellar." I suppose I underestimated the creativity of other composers you mentioned, although they all are genius in their own rights.
I know, sad news for sure! Such indelible music he composed.
Oh, and to throw an opinion into the topic of this thread, I would be very onboard for a Bear McCreary score in Star Trek, but also Nami Melamud and Chris Westlake are providing marvelous music for the current SNW, PRO and LD series and would deserve a chance at big screen Trek too.
I think James Newton Howard could make a great Star Trek score.
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