Goldsmith/Ross: The Game of Their Lives

[Gast Raisuli]

Für David Anspaughs ("Hoosiers", "Rudy") neuen Sport-Film "The Game of Their Lives" sollte Jerry Goldsmith die Musik schreiben, doch leider konnte der Maestro aus bekannten Gründen seine Arbeit nicht mehr vollenden. Bei imdb findet man folgenden Kommentar: "Jerry Goldsmith was going to score the music for this film but died before filming was complete. The unfinished score he had already written is now being adapted and completed by composer William Ross and will retain Goldsmith's themes for the film."

Nachdem ich William Ross' Dirigat (und Adaption) zu "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" kenne sowie seine Scores zu "Tin Cup", "My Fellow Americans" und "My Dog Skip" (exzellent), scheint mir David Anspaughs Wahl ein echter Glücksgriff zu sein. Hierzu ein Auszug aus einem Interview mit dem Regisseur: "[...] But we were also very lucky because we got a guy named Bill Ross who composed the score for 'Game of Their Lives' and its like he channeled Jerry. When you hear his music you almost cant believe it ISNT Jerry. Jerry was one of his heroes. Frankly I had not heard of him. Id heard his scores but didnt realize it was him. Like 'My Dog Skip' and 'Ladder 49' and a few other movies and somebody said oh yeah this guys like a young Jerry Goldsmith and I went oh no, nobody is Jerry Goldsmith! And then I heard his music and it was pretty amazing. In fact, when we were scoring this movie at Fox for the first two days we had like an 80 piece orchestra and Bill told me that most of the people here in this room worked with Jerry and almost all of these people were your musicians for 'Rudy'. I miss him a lot. I cant get used to the fact he aint with us anymore."

Klingt vielversprechend. Neben Edward Shearmur dürfte William Ross wohl eines der interessantesten Newcomer-Talente im Filmmusik-Business sein. Leider sind die meisten seiner bisherigen Soundtracks nur als kurze Promo-CDs erhältlich, aber vielleicht ändert sich das, sobald "The Game of Their Lives" erscheint...

[Thomas Riediger]

Ich lasse mich gerne überraschen und bin gespannt auf seine Kompositionen!