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Pattinson and Hardwick Talk Scoring ‘Twilight’
Last week Bloody-Disgusting stringer Tammy Sutton say down with the cast and crew of Summit Entertainment’s Twilight, which arrives in theaters tomorrow at midnight. Beyond the break you can read all of the secrets behind the soundtrack of TWILIGHT from star Robert Pattinson and director Catherine Hardwicke.
“I think [star] Nikki Reed gave a CD of stuff I’d recorded on my computer to [director] Catherine [Hardwicke],” star Robert Pattinson tells B-D. The soundtrack features Pattinson on one of the lead tracks, “She put it into a cut [of the movie] and it kind of worked, so I agreed. I didn’t know it would end up being on the soundtrack. I wanted to put it under another name so it wouldn’t become distracting, which is has. I’m not trying to get a music career out of it or anything,” he jokes.
Catherine Hardwick was aware that the author Stephenie Meyer was a huge fan of the band Muse. She even dedicates one of the books to them.
“We were so lucky to get Muse on the soundtrack, I put myself on tape and tried a zillion times to reach those guys,” Hardwicke explains. “I really wanted them to be apart of this.”
Luckily, Muse would eventually agree to be a part of the soundtrack, which is currently at number 1 on the billboard charts. The rest of the music in the film proved to be a much more difficult task.
“The music supervisor would send CD after CD with up to 50 songs on them. We’d try every song with the picture, and a lot of times music just does not work,” she continues, “if the lyrics start cutting through too much then you miss the dialog. For every song in the movie we probably tried 50-60 songs played to the picture until you get one that works.
“The Iron and Wine song that’s played at the prom, was suggested by Kristen [Stewart]. During rehearsals we play music, and as soon as we put it on and Rob and Kristen started dancing, we thought it was a cool song, but it’s very rare that a song you use during rehearsal makes it all the way through and still works with the picture.”
You can read more about TWILIGHT here as Hardwicke talks about how the film almost didn’t happen!
Two things that have proven to be pretty dependable at the box office in recent years are horror movies and Christopher Nolan movies. With Nolan’s The Odyssey absolutely dominating the box office this past weekend, many fans of Nolan’s work have been left hungry for a Nolan-directed horror movie. After all, The Odyssey does whet the appetite for Nolan nightmare fuel.
Christopher Nolan has brushed up against the horror genre in the past with 2002 thriller Insomnia, but does he have any interest in someday making a full-on horror movie?
Nolan tells the Empire Podcast in a new chat, “I’ve always been interested in doing a horror film.”
“But horror is most successful when the conceptual framework of whatever the story is is just so undeniable. I think there are very few really great horror movies,” Nolan continues.
So why hasn’t Christopher Nolan directed a horror movie yet?
He explains to Empire, “I’ve never clicked with a particular idea or concept that worked for me. I love the genre. Of all genres, it’s the most visceral. Where the direct response to the audience is the most important. That is to say, you’re trying to make people literally feel something in their bones about what’s going on on-screen.”
Nolan calls horror “a genre in which experimentation is demanded.” He explains, “I go to see a lot of horror films with my kids these days, and you’ll see things in the first half an hour, 45 minutes of any horror film that you’d never see in another genre. Risks that are taken. Dangerous approaches to things. Admittedly, a lot of movies can’t sustain that to the end. But in the horror genre, that kind of innovation is not just respected – it’s really demanded.”
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is now playing in theaters.
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