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Re: Zimmer, team, and alums rundown Pt 4 - MV 2003-04: Pirates Gets The Booty (4e)
• Posted by: Lonestarr   <Send E-Mail>
• Date: Monday, April 18, 2022, at 3:22 a.m.
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• In Response to: Zimmer, team, and alums rundown Pt 4 - MV 2003... (JBlough)

> This is part of a series. Part 4d can be found here:
> https://www.filmtracks.com/scoreboard/forum.cgi?read=108458

> ———————-

> Secret Window (2004) - Not heard
> Philip Glass & Geoff Zanelli

> Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard originally planned to collaborate on
> this, but schedule conflicts supposedly got in the way. Philip Glass would
> get the picture instead, though it seems most of his music was replaced by
> work from Media Ventures composer Geoff Zanelli. “The call for Secret
> Window actually came from Sony, who wanted to see if I could score just
> one scene. They had a deadline looming so I had to write quickly. The
> production was in New York and I’m in Los Angeles, so after my first day I
> sent my music to Koepp. He liked it, and sent another scene for me to
> score. Then another. And then another. This carried on for about a week
> until we had an orchestra session. I went on to write more scenes for
> another week and by the end of my 13th day of writing we had our 2nd
> orchestra date. I hadn’t realized until after we recorded that I’d scored
> nearly all of the film. After I finished my work on the score, David Koepp
> called to tell me ‘you saved the picture!’” Koepp would use Zanelli on
> most of the pictures he directed going forward.

> The music was never released legitimately. Supposedly there’s a promo of
> Zanelli’s material floating around somewhere.
>
>

I found Zanelli's music overbearing (compare his work in the finale to Glass' - both available on YT - and it's like night and day).




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