Veröffentlichung Lionsgate Records: Tuomas Kantelinen - HERCULES: THE LEGEND BEGINS

[horner1980]

Tuomas Kantelinen is reteaming with director Renny Harlin on the upcoming period action adventure Hercules: The Legend Begins. The film stars Kellan Lutz in the title role, alongside Liam McIntyre, Gaia Weiss, Scott Adkins, Roxanne McKee and Liam Garrigan. The movie tells the love story between the son of Zeus and the mortal princess of Crete, who was promised to his own brother despite her love for Hercules. Harlin has co-written the screenplay with Sean Hood (Conan the Barbarian, Halloween: Resurrection) and Steve Giulio. Les Welden and Danny Lerner (The Expendables 2, Olympus Has Fallen) are producing the  Nu Image/Millennium Films production. Harlin has previously collaborated with Kantelinen on 2004′s Mindhunters. The director’s other previous musical collaborators include Michael Kamen (Die Hard 2), John Debney (Cutthroat Island), Trevor Jones (Cliffhanger), Alan Silvestri (The Long Kiss Goodnight), BT (Driven) and Trevor Rabin (Deep Blue Sea). Hercules: The Legend Begins was shot in 3D and is expected to premiere in 2014.

Quelle: http://filmmusicreporter.com/2013/10/13/tuomas-kantelinen-scoring-hercules-the-legend-begins/

[Cody]

gibts ein Release oder was läuft hier?

[Lars Potreck]

im us itunes seit heut erhältlich

[horner1980]

Interview mit dem Komponisten

 

Hier der Part über Hercules.. den Rest kann man im Link weiterlesen
 

Tuomas Kantelinen, is one of the brightest stars within the cosmos of film scoring, his highly original and innovative music has ingratiated numerous movies and television productions. Born on September 22nd in Finland, he won the Finnish Jussi Award for Best Film Music in 1997 and 1999 and was awarded the Finnish Art Critics’ award for “Most impressive Artistic Breakthrough of the Year” in 1999 for his achievements in the fields of film music and classical music. He is known for his beautiful orchestral film themes, but has also scored ads for well-known mobile operators, banks and consumer products, as well as the theme music for MTV3 (Finland) news. in addition to film music, he also composes concert music,ballets and even operas. His opera about long-distance runner Paavo Nurmi was performed on the Helsinki Olympic Stadium to 22.000 spectators per night in summer 2000.

 

The Legend of Hercules is one of your most recent film scores, how long was the scoring process on this project from start to finish?

 

I met Renny for lunch in the beginning of February a year ago he had just gotten the gig – so for a big film with so many effects ‘The Legend of Hercules’ was completed in record time. I don’t usually get involved that early in the process, but for this film we started right away, by making a sort of teaser for which I wrote some music, it was shown to buyers at the Berlin market a year ago. I also composed some cues for the set so they could have action music or music for some emotional scenes while they were filming. I was also working on the temp score of the movie, both helping to choose temp music and writing little atmospheric and transition pieces while they were editing the movie. We spotted the movie around the beginning of October, and then I started composing in earnest. Recording was in the beginning of December, final mix from the second week of December, and the movie came out on January 10th. All in all a very compact schedule, especially since the release was changed to an earlier date fairly last minute!

 

You worked with director Renny Harlin on MINDHUNTERS did he have specific ideas or instructions for you regarding the music on this and HERCULES or was he happy to let you create the score and see what you had produced?

 

From the start Renny knew he wanted an ‘old-fashioned’ epic and orchestral score in the vein of classic swords & sandals movies. I have learned to know his taste he really goes for the melody – the more memorable and ‘hummable’, the better. He isn’t one of those directors who think that everything or anything is ‘too much’ where you might end up with a drony music for the duration of most of the movie. Renny wants it big, and epic, and unashamedly massive. When spotting, we were laughing a lot, because for almost every scene him or one of the producers would say: “and this one has to be really huge and epic” – there are so many action scenes and each is bigger than the previous one.

 

What size orchestra did you utilize for the score and where did you record?

 

We had a big orchestra with almost 90 players in Budapest, where we recorded for a couple of days. We then continued to London, where we recorded all the brass for the score and also a smaller string ensemble for some cues that needed the accuracy of the London players. Those we recorded at Air Studios, and also mixed there for about a week. We were unfortunately in quite a hurry due to the final mix starting two days after our last recording day, so we mixed all day and delivered reels in the evening when it was the start of the day in Los Angeles.

 

The female vocalist on the score for HERCULES plays quite a large role on a number of the cues, who is the vocalist?

 

There are actually three female singers in ‘Hercules’ – one of them is my own sister Karoliina Kantelinen, who is a singer and ethnomusicologist. She is one of the three singers in the Finnish folk band Värttinä that is quite popular all over the world among folk music fans. Then there are talented twin sisters Nicki and Tanya Wells, whose singing we can hear in a couple of key scenes like when Zeus visits Queen Alcmene in her bedchamber. Nicki and Tanya are very well versed in many musical styles and have studied singing in India, so the base of that cue is a ‘shloka’, a sort of mantra that they sing in harmonies. On top there is more melodious singing by then. This was the last cue that we hadn’t recorded. Nicki and Tanya came in around midnight to Air Studios, where we had just recorded a full day of brass and strings. We were watching the pictures and talking about how we wanted to layer singing and give the scene a sort of ‘divine intervention’ feel without being too ‘angelic’. In about two hours we were done, and super happy with the result. It is such a privilege to get to work with such creative people.

Quelle: http://jonman492000.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/tuomas-kantelinen/

 

 

[Mephisto]

Da bin ich jetzt hin und hergerissen. Zum einen wäre es verlockend, einen unverschämt massiven Orchesterscore zu hören, aber die Tatsache, dass weibliche Sängerinnen eine wichtige Rolle spielen, lässt doch wieder auf Ethno-Kitsch schließen und mich zurück zucken...

[Lars Potreck]

hörs dir doch einfach mal an. ist doch nur musik. auf itunes sind die hörproben lang genug.

[ronin1975]

klingt wirklich recht klassisch und so, Chorparts auch sehr hübsch... find der Hall auf der Aufnahme lässts ein wenig billig klingen... aber hätt zu so nem Film sowas gar nicht erwartet... Kantelinen weiss schon was er tut...

 

also die Clips sind ganz ordenlich... hat ihn wer sich ganz gekauft?

[Csongor]

Ein Freund von mir hat den schon ... bin jetzt auch neugierig geworden