Some exciting news-- James Newton Howard will be scoring the fantasy film "The Waterhorse" which is to be released in September of this year.

From director Jay Russel's myspace:

Just a brief note to tell you how excited I am that I just signed James Newton Howard on to compose the score for "The Waterhorse." I loved his scores for "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs." I thought both pieces had a wonderful combination of tension and mysticism. Not the easiest musical feat to accomplish.

Nice find.

But is there any other source yet to confirm this info?

Well, I guess he'll just have to produce Jay Ruseell's blood, eh? ;)

I wonder why he didn't choose his past composer, William Ross.

I hope emile will give us some first-hand confirmation of this. A lot of stuff is being written on myspace these days, so you never know... and soundtrack.net or film music radio don't seem to know about it either.

My, what a project. If it's true, that is.

IMDB Plot Outline: A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.

JNH + Fantasy + Scottish influences = ???

Very intriguing, I hope this is a go-ahead.

:smoke:

Well, it said "just signed", so I guess not many people kow yet. But you guys could try e-mailing Blake Neely, Stuart M. Thomson, Jeff Atmajian, Alex Kharlamov, Julia Newmann ... someone working for him might know by now.

Also: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409226/

Yeah there's no confirmation, but I actually read about it on kongisking.net, a fan site for Peter Jackson's King Kong. They've been posting a bunch of stuff from Jay Russel's myspace about "The Waterhorse."

That's the only reason why I would consider it to be a valid myspace for Russel, but who knows. Hopefully we'll get some confirmation soon.

I got an official confirmation. Seems like a super project! An adventure fantasy film seems very promising for James. He is a master at it.

And we all know that if James scores films with "water" in it we can expect something remarkable ;)

N.P. Treasure Planet :music:

Good, good, good!

Now that's something to look forward to for sure!

Masterpiece = James . Water ^2. The power two reffers to fantasy part of the score.

Don't believe me? Reffer to Einstein's Theory of Relativity. :D

Great news.

I am thirsty for more watery scores from James! Bring them on!

Thank you very much emile for this confirmation. You are really THE ultimate source of info when it comes to James and Alan.

:up:

Thanks. I do my best.

Woohoo!

Fantastic project! :smoke:


Another plot outline, from Wikipedia:
Set in the 1930s, a girl named Kirstie and her brother, Angus, discover an egg after a storm and take it home. To their surprise this egg hatches into a kind sea monster they name Crusoe. It grows, until finally it is too big to live anywhere but in nearby Loch Ness.

The Waterhorse (Wikipedia)

Oh yes! Water again! Fantastic news!

He is the best!

And I also see an egg :D . "Egg Travels" from Dinosaur comes to my mind. A theme for the egg would be so nice.

I'm very happy that James choose this kind of movies.

The release date was pushed back from September 21st to December 25th this year. Interesting. They are making this a christmas release.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! :D

Water Water Water

I am excited after Lady in the WATER, WATERworld and Atlantis!!!

Just realised that William Ross' scores for the last two Jay Russell films (Ladder 49 and Tuck Everlasting) were pretty heavily temp-tracked. I hope this will not be the case this time round.

:/

Being the ever curious fudger that I am, I asked if the score was recorded, and yeah -- it's already been.

I assume he's onto/getting to to record some other score.

The official site has been opened and a trailer has been released:
http://www.thewaterhorse.com/

It looks great! This project must have been fun for James. It reminds me a bit of Dinosaur. Looks very promising.

Also check out the blog of the director Jay Russel. Around May and April he talks about James' score which he calls "brilliant" :smoke:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...endID=142826300

Someone at SR pointed out that there are two short clips at the Water Horse official site.

http://www.thewaterhorse.com/

Hm, theres music playing in the background which has a certain JNH ring to it even though the piece seems to be rather short.

Yeah but surely you have heard the introductory music? That piece sounds pretty grand and epic, I like it. I really can't wait for this score, especially now that I know that The Chieftains were involved in the recording.

:)

I think Alan has them all Beat when it comes to water films James is catching up
I think he is awesome too
Kathy

Everyone should check out the video blogs on The Water Horse website. You can hear James' music in the background!

The Water Horse: Legend Of The Deep Official Site

:smoke:

Well, it's not much but it does have that magical sound.
Maybe they will post a video blog about the music also? That will be great.

December 4 is the day!!!


http://www.amazon.com/Water-Horse-Legend-D...92303952&sr=8-2

Nice cover by the way!

Yaba daba doo!! :D

"Another lovely score from James and there is also a guest appearance from The Chieftans to add that special Celtic flavour."


Recorded at Abbey Road with the London Symphony Orchestra.



Posted this back in August on ScoreReviews, but I couldn't get logged in here to post here, until now.

The Water Horse: Legend Of The Deep Tracklisting

1. Back Where You Belong (Theme from The Water Horse)
2. The Water Horse Main Title
3. Angus Feeds Crusoe
4. You Didn't Even Get Wet
5. The Workshop
6. Ann
7. Bathtub
8. Driving To The Loch
9. Run Angus
10. The Fishermen
11. Angus In Training
12. Swimming
13. The Children Laugh
14. The Dinner Party
15. There's No Monster
16. Saving Crusoe
17. The Net
18. The Jump
19. End Of The Story
20. The Water Horse Suite

:clap: :dancing: :up:

LOL

Today's video blog over at the official website has some beautiful music in the background.

:smoke:

I am very curious about this cue: "Swimming".

Also the last video blog has some great scottish music.

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thewate.../blog/index.php


I was afraid that the score would be more comedy than drama (maybe because of that trailer). But everything I heard until now from the videos blog is great and it seems that there is some emotional music, too. I hope there is a good balance between comedy - adventure and drama.

I wonder if there will be a video blog about James' music.

:)

If you head over to Jay Russell's MySpace page, he has posted 3 short video clips of the recording sessions at Abbey Road for The Waterhorse. They are very short and not brilliant quality but worth looking at.

:)

Thanks for informing!

Here comes the running time! [From http://www.sonybmg.ch/artists2.php?iA=1&ar...uct=88697193002]

01 Back Where You Belong (04:29)
02 Water Horse Main Title (01:09)
03 Angus Feeds Crusoe (01:59)
04 You Didn''t Even Get Wet (02:58)
05 The Workshop (02:35)
06 Ann (01:28)
07 Bathtub (02:23)
08 Driving to the Loch (02:00)
09 Run Angus (01:20)
10 The Fishermen (01:37)
11 Angus in Training (02:52)
12 Swimming (06:34)
13 The Children Laugh (02:58)
14 The Dinner Party (03:03)
15 There's No Monster (02:01)
16 Saving Crusoe (02:04)
17 The Net (04:22)
18 The Jump (01:40)
19 End of the Story (03:04)
20 The Water Horse Suite (08:08)

Nice! :smoke:

just a couple days away now! :D

Sound clips here!
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8044324

I like what I hear!! Can't wait to hear the full score!!

My copy is on the way now. I hope I will receive it fast :)