In a brief forum post (via SlashFilm) Oscar-winning composer Trent Reznor commented on the work he and Atticus Ross are putting in scoring David Fincher’s next film, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Atticus and I are hard at work scoring David’s next film, which will be opening this Christmas. We’ve been composing quite a bit of music for this and have just begun to see some of what’s been shot. Trust me when I say this film (and of course the music!) will not disappoint.
Fincher’s remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will hit theaters on December 21 and is his second film in a row at Columbia Pictures following The Social Network of which he earned an Oscar nomination for and Reznor and Ross won an Oscar for their original score.
I mention the Columbia Pictures aspect of it only because Harvey Weinstein recently revealed in the pages of Newsweek his “favorite mistakes” and wrote:
But my favorite mistake happened two years ago, when I had the opportunity to buy The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Two friends in London told me there was a book they loved. I read the book and thought it was great. Then I heard they were making a movie out of it. I got the people to show us the movie to see whether we’d want to distribute it in the United States, and everything about it in my gut said, “Do this–there’s a franchise here.” But my team said, ‘No, we should focus on bigger movies,’ and I let the committee overwhelm me. I didn’t listen to my very significant gut, and when I say significant, I mean size, geographically. And that was a big bloody mistake–an economic mistake, a company mistake. If you’re going to be in the business we are, it has to be because you want to champion movies that are different. This year, we got The King’s Speech, Blue Valentine, Company Men, and part of The Fighter. Small movies are intensive, but they’re so worth it. It’s what we have to do to be who we are.
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Getting back to Reznor really quickly, he is also preparing to score Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter for Timur Bekmambetov as well as shoot a small role in the film. He commented briefly on the film writing, “I was familiar with the book, read the script and it felt like an interesting challenge as a composer – very different from the Fincher films.”
Fox has already slated Vampire Hunter for June 22, 2012 starring Benjamin Walker, Anthony Mackie, Dominic Cooper, Robin McLeavy, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Jimmi Simpson.
