Nick Cave to score "The Road"

StoneG82StoneG82 Posts: 806
edited April 2008 in Other Music
http://www.hotpress.com/news/4513883.html

Nick Cave to work on The Road
18 Mar 2008

Nick Cave has confirmed that he and Warren Ellis will write the soundtrack to John Hillcoat’s forthcoming film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’'s The Road.

Hillcoat has of course collaborated with Cave many times before, most notably on his debut film Ghosts Of The Civil Dead, and 2005’s Cave-scripted bushranger western The Proposition. Hillcoat was due to begin work on another Cave screenplay, Death Of A Ladies’ Man, but that project was postponed when he was offered The Road, which follows the Coen Brothers Oscar-winning adaptation of another McCarthy novel No Country For Old Men.

"“He'’s filming it as we speak,"” Cave revealed to hotpress.com, "“Death Of A Ladies’ Man was written because he wanted to go straight into making another film after The Proposition, and we went for a low budget English film for practical reasons, because he lives in England and he could do something fast. So I wrote him this, which is basically set outside his door where he lives in Brighton, and I live in Brighton too. He wanted to do that while the Hollywood stuff he hoped would come in, which it certainly did.

“"But in fact to fund this film, which was considerably less money than any of the other stuff, was an absolute fucking nightmare. So what happened was it didn’t get made and John got offered The Road. And he had a very difficult decision because he really likes the film I wrote him, and he invested a lot of his own energy into the script as well. So anyway, now he’s making The Road, and we’re doing the music. It’'ll star Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron.”"

The Road will extend a prolific period of film work for Cave and Ellis, who recently collaborated not just on The Proposition soundtrack, but also the score for Andrew Dominik'’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
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  • mole1985mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    I'm not familiar with any of Nick's work but it's nice to know someone with credibility will be working on it. Loved the book,can't wait for the film. I think Viggo will be great.
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  • I love Nick and Warren's scores. I want to read this book now.
  • sadprofessorsadprofessor Posts: 1,034
    Thats gonna be good times.
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Hopefully his 'Death Of A Ladies’ Man' thing will be made in the not too distant.
  • Byrnzie wrote:
    Hopefully his 'Death Of A Ladies’ Man' thing will be made in the not too distant.

    For shizzle.
  • I just discovered the score to the "Assassination of Jesse James". I've been listening a lot to it and just love it. Unfortunately some of the best pieces were left off the soundtrack CD. "Mary's Song" is incredible. I haven't listened to "The Road".

    Very excited for the new album next week.
  • InHiding80InHiding80 Posts: 7,623
    He scores Hell Or High Water. I saw it at my local Laemmle art house theater yesterday and I highly recommend it.
  • Attaway77Attaway77 Posts: 3,151
    The "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" and "The Road" are absolutely amazing movies… The soundtrack to those two give it that dark weird edge that's beautiful...
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  • bootlegger10bootlegger10 Posts: 15,946
    edited September 2016
    Went to the new album release documentary last night. I can't decipher half of what Nick Cave is trying to say (can understand the words but not the point), but damn the music is great. They were selling the album after the show so got my soundtrack for work today.
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