Comingsoon.net reports that M. Night Shyamalan, besides working hard to cement his deal with Paramount of a live-action version of the cartoon series Avatar: The Last Airbender, also has a script in development called The Green Effect which is about:

However, no studio had any interest in the script so shyamalan is doing changes and will re-present the altered script in one month along with a new title and a full cast. Looks like this one is going to be his and James' next colaboration if a studio will pick it up.

That won't be so bad if ever made, but I personally lie to see Shyamalan doing a Harry Potter movie. In fact I want to haer a JNH flavoured Harry Potter score badly. :D

The Green Effect is now housed at 20th century fox and has been renamed The Happening. It will probably be out in june 2008 according to comingsoon.net

It has been confirmed that Mark Wahlberg will star in Shyamalan's The Happening. Comingsoon.net has the details:

June 13th 2008! That's the day we get a new James Newton Howard score for an apocalyptic Shyamalan film!

JAMES NEWTON HOWARD on THE HAPPENING

Working on his sixth film for M. Night Shyamalan, James Newton Howard is doing the music for The Happening, a new sci-fi thriller by the director of The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs.

For more info please download the latest edition (15/08/2007) of http://www.filmmusicweekly.com

So I was thinking... What should this score sound like?

First thing that comes to mind when reading the synopsis is something similar to Signs.. something Herrmann-esque. But I am really hoping JNH can come up with something with a more unique voice instead of mimicking Signs (which Lady in the Water sometimes seems to do.)

I hope he adds in some interesting sounds/textures (i.e. the bass recorders in The Village) instead of using just a traditional orchestra.

I am thinking there might be some sort of love theme that is augmented, or broken sounding. Also maybe a really cool theme that represents "nature", and one that represents "man".

That would be great!

I'm sure he has already created the themes if everything is going on schedule per the normal Shyamalan routine.

Where is stuthomas when we need him? I'm sure he wouldn't let anything slip that isn't supposed to slip anyways. :shhh:

I'm pretty sure the JNH team has been very busy lately. The Dark Knight, The Happening and Mad Money are coming up soon too.

I am expecting a grand, emotional score. Bigger than his previous Shyamalan scores. This film is about BIG issues like humanity.

I've been saying this all day at various forums, but I don't like that poster. I hope the CD cover is better.

I am guessing this could turn out to be a rather atmospheric score, which could be good or bad. Judging by this teaser poster, the scenario is rather gloom, kind of like a mixture of depression and tension. I am really curious what shyamalan and howard will do with this one!

I wouldn't mind some atmospheric, and moody parts of the score. I would love to get some epic choir work similar to Snow Falling on Ceders. Maybe some funky synth stuff that harkens back to The Day The Earth Stood Still.

WOW! I like it, a lot!

I wouldn't really associate epic choir with this type of movies. This is one of those cases when electronic guitars and synths are commonly used imo. But I don't really mind the instrumentation here. James always fails to disappoint with his Shyamalan assignments and hopefully this one won't be any different.

Before I saw Snow Falling on Ceders I would have said the same thing...

But I see your point. :sceptical:

Someone feel free to correct me, but they started or aren't far off from recording the score now, right?

I have no idea. I believe recording for the Lady in the Water score was in the last weeks of April, first weeks of May.

If that is any indication of how the schedule for Night's movies usually work out, scoring for this movie shouldn't happen until the end of March.

UPDATE:

Here's the Domestic Teaser:

The Happening

and now available in HD:

The Happening Domestic Trailer

Wonder what the music is from...

From a new interview with clarinet player Donald Foster (who says the new Indy score is now done):

Very interesting. I'm still pondering what this score's 'sound' will be. Thanks for sharing.

scoringsessions.com has some foto coverage of the sessions! Check it out!

me want to hear!

"Cellist Maya Beiser performed cello solos on the score, with additional solos performed by Andrew Schulman on cello, and Roger Wilke on violin."

I'm so excited when I read this.

:yahoo: :drool2: :drool2: :drinks:

:yeah:

Words cannot begin to describe how excited I am about this score.

:drool2:

I didn't seen Shyamalan on these photos !! :huh:
...weird...

I noticed that too, really out of the ordinary. Maybe Night wasn't there that day or he sent a producer in his place?

Maybe James told him to "get out!"

lol, j/k

Someone at FSM says that the new Film Music issue of Hollywood Reporter says his score will be released by Varese Sarabande, though it's not up yet there.

Beaten to the punch. ;)

One of these days they'll recognise that the complete score for a M.Night movie can (usually) fit on one CD. Maybe they will with this one, who knows.

from Varese:

THE HAPPENING
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Music Composed by James Newton Howard

Mark Wahlberg

From director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs) comes a lightning-paced, heart-pounding paranoid thriller about a family on the run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event that threatens not only humankind … but the most basic human instinct of them all: survival.

It begins with no clear warning. It seems to come out of nowhere. In a matter of minutes, episodes of strange, chilling deaths that defy reason and boggle the mind in their shocking destructiveness, erupt in major American cities.

For Philadelphia high school science teacher Elliot Moore (Academy Award® nominee Mark Wahlberg) what matters most is finding a way to escape the mysterious and deadly phenomenon. Though he and his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel) are in the midst of a marital crisis, they hit the road, first by train, then by car, with Elliot’s math teacher friend Julian (Emmy® Award winner John Leguizamo) and his 8-year-old daughter Jess, heading for the Pennsylvania farmlands where they hope they’ll be out of reach of the grisly, ever-growing attacks. Yet it soon becomes clear that no one — and nowhere — is safe.

Returning to the collaboration that spawned his acclaimed scores for such films as The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village (Academy Award® nominee) and Lady In The Water, composer James Newton Howard reaches another career milestone with this major new opus.

20th Century Fox opens THE HAPPENING nationwide on June 13.

Varèse Sarabande Catalog #: 302 066 901 2
Release Date: 06/03/08 <----- :D

:) Great !!

New Full Legnth Trailer: Here

Tracklisting from Varese:

1. Main Titles (2:18)
2. Evacuating Philadelphia (2:21)
3. Vice Principal (1:56)
4. Central Park (2:58)
5. We Lost Contact (:59)
6. You Can’t Just Leave Us Here (1:43)
7. Rittenhouse Square (1:59)
8. Five Miles Back (1:13)
9. Princeton (3:06)
10. Jess Comforts Elliot (2:31)
11. My Firearm Is My Friend (2:59)
12. Abandoned House (1:32)
13. Shotgun (4:27)
14. You Eyin’ My Lemon Drink? (4:28)
15. Mrs. Jones (1:44)
16. Voices (1:36)
17. Be With You (3:41)
18. End Title Suite (8:36)

50 minutes!

:yahoo: I love James Newton Howard
50 min, "end titles suite"...
It's happening... :smoke:

Pre-ordered this along with The Dark Knight today through Amazon. :D :D

Can't wait. <------ like the millionth time I've said that already. :proud:

This is going to be special, I can Sense it. I've seen the Signs. The quality of this score will be Unbreakable. It'll be better than living in a Village. Better even than that Lady I saw in the Water. I can't believe this is Happening!

:rolleyes:

NP: The Village - JNH

This man is a f*&king genius. I swear down.

:music:

Extended clip introduced by M. Night himself.

Yahoo! The Happening Extended Clip

The Official website has been updated, and it sounds like there is some JNH in the background!

TheHappeningMovie.com

Really negative review of the film with one spolier (it warns you in advance):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0949731/board/...d/106450384?p=1

(must be logged in to see message boards at IMDB)


Well, this and the handful of negativ reviews of Indiana Jones 4, just crossed the only two films I wasp lanning on seeing this year, off my list. :/