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ScoreKeeper With Composer Mark Snow About THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE, The Creation Of The Series' Theme, And Much More!!

FIRST? by MRJONZ72	Jun 24th, 2008 09:54:05 AM

This a joyous occasion my fellow Talkbackers by MRJONZ72	Jun 24th, 2008 10:00:46 AM
I have been coming to AICN NEWS since 1997. I remember firstr coming to this site and seeing new on an upcoming movie called Batman and Robin, but at anyrate in my 11 years coming to this site..I have never been first..The day has now come.. Now back to the news at hand...I like Mark Snows work. I mean John Williams, Basil Poledouris, James Horner and some older Danny Elfman are the cream of the crop for me..but I do like this guys work and await his work on the XFILES movie as well as the movie itself.. Glad that FOX seems to be keeping a lot things underwrap so far the XFILES movies unlike other studios.
First??? NO second. by nukethefridge	Jun 24th, 2008 10:01:07 AM

Ennio Morconne by MRJONZ72	Jun 24th, 2008 10:02:08 AM
Damn how did I leave him out of the ranks of great movie composers..He's in my top 3.
MRJONZ72 by nukethefridge	Jun 24th, 2008 10:02:50 AM
I wanted first so much
I wanted to be first as much as by nukethefridge	Jun 24th, 2008 10:04:22 AM
I want Jurassic Park iv.
Three songs by David Cloverfield	Jun 24th, 2008 10:07:46 AM
For a moment I've pictured an unexpected batshit crazy moment in the new movie, somewhere around the 39th minute when Mulder just starts to sing his song "I want to believe". Three unexplained musical numbers in the otherwise serious sci-fi thriller. If there's a tool to convey Mulder's and Skully's confusion when faced with the unknown this is it.
finally some Xfiles on THIS site... by j2talk	Jun 24th, 2008 10:16:59 AM
there is plent of other sites with nes...why not here...
For by tomdolan04	Jun 24th, 2008 10:18:15 AM
Ecstasy of Gold alone Ennio deserves infinite appraisal. So powerful, both in and out of context of The Good The Bad and the Ugly
i dont want to be by j2talk	Jun 24th, 2008 10:18:44 AM
first either, but i wouldnt mind seeing Jurassic Park IV..
I WANT TO BELIEVE by timryanokane	Jun 24th, 2008 10:24:13 AM
that this movie won't suck a fat cock. Yay! Mediocrity!
DON'T STOP BELIEVING by LaserPants	Jun 24th, 2008 10:39:30 AM
That this movie won't bomb. If it makes you feel any better, one of my cult / niche faves -- Speed Racer -- bombed really badly too. Soon all of you Xheads (all ten of you still left on the planet) will know my disappointment when the mass market collectively shrugs its media inundated shoulders and stay at home to watch a video or go see a different movie instead of a movie based on a cult tv show people stopped caring about at all something like 10, 15 years ago.
Mark Snow, didnt he rap 'Informer'? by Baron Karza	Jun 24th, 2008 10:48:48 AM
In-Fo-mA, I lick your boom boom now!
I find his work cold by Big Bad Clone	Jun 24th, 2008 11:10:41 AM
Anytime I run into something he's done, I can identify it pretty fast. Even without the usual made-in-Canada clues. That said, I just can't dig his stuff. I understand he's going for a different feel but his "atmoshpere" is more like a heavy blanket of blahhh.
CLOSURE by Holodigm	Jun 24th, 2008 11:12:50 AM
Scorekeeper just brought up horrible memories. "Yeah you know how she was kidnapped by aliens? Not really, she died in a field." Fuckin weak.
When will we get Snow's X-Files scores on CD? by Nasty In The Pasty	Jun 24th, 2008 12:05:22 PM
There's no re-use fee problems (it's all synth), so...what's the hold-up? Just one CD for each season would be lovely.
No mention of "Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again"... by FilmCritic3000	Jun 24th, 2008 12:14:18 PM
I tuned into that as a child (Lauren Holly played Betty; Karen Kopins, from "Once Bitten", played Veronica). I'd be interested to hear Mark's opinion on his score for that TV movie.
Why??!! by hank henshaw	Jun 24th, 2008 12:24:41 PM
A hip-hop song after an instrumental movie score? Who came up with that idea? One of the many downsides of having rappers acting in a movie, I guess. I'm sure they demand that the contract says they get to do a song from the soundtrack.
Is there a new X-Files movie coming?!... by DonKingKong	Jun 24th, 2008 12:52:20 PM
We got Termintator, GI Joe and Transformer movies being jocked with a release date a year in advance, and i haven't heard a hardly a peep about this movie. What the hell is wrong with this picture?! Somebody in the promotion dept needs fired. If I was attached to this franchise and had any respect for the body of work done, I'd be fucking pissed.
I love the x-files by nukethefridge	Jun 24th, 2008 12:55:59 PM
Just rewatching them now, in order from the start. On "Ice" (episode 8,season 1) at the min. Can I see some credentials???
Battlefield Earth 2 by The Biomind	Jun 24th, 2008 01:58:55 PM
Will there ever be a BATTLEFIELD EARTH 2 ? Greatest sci-fi movie ever made! John Travolta and Tom Cruise could co-star. Scientologists are so hot nowadays.
Thanks, Mark! by DarthCorleone	Jun 24th, 2008 02:25:25 PM
And thanks to Scorekeeper! This was a great interview. I'm a huge X-Files fan and appreciate Mark's taking the time to share this much with us.
Really looking forward to this by kwisatzhaderach	Jun 24th, 2008 02:51:34 PM
I'm hoping for a good old-fashioned genre flick.
“This is a love story with spiritual and religious overtones.” by Rolnikov	Jun 24th, 2008 03:39:21 PM
That sounds terrible!
Nobody else will do the geeky thing and mention it? by JonJonB	Jun 24th, 2008 04:46:19 PM
Ok..."The Host" was a season 2 episode (and I don't even have to check, weirdly I know this just from memory of it's first airing in the UK). Sort of nullifies ScoreKeeper's whole point about how great an episode it was in it's debut season or whatever.
Re: Box Office. by rbatty024	Jun 24th, 2008 05:10:34 PM
I've mentioned this before, but it's worth another go. Some people are claiming this film will bomb and that it's too late for a film. Let's deal with the latter first. It's only been about six years since the series ended. It has been much longer since Indiana Jones, Rambo, Rocky, and John McClane had their last adventures. If those films can succeed then I guarantee you X-Files, which regularly gave us mini-movies better than anything playing at your local cinema, will also own this Summer. Second, I've read that this film only cost $30 million to make. That's a bargain for a Summer movie. Hell, The Happening made that in its first weekend, and that movie blew. Furthermore, the American domestic box office will only be half of the film's take. People forget that The X-Files is popular worldwide. The first film made $180 million worldwide and a $100 million of that came from overseas. All they have to do is make a film as good as an average X-Files episode and this film will make money. Unless the movie is a disaster on the scale of the ninth season, then Fox doesn't have much to worry about.
The Love Story. by hank henshaw	Jun 24th, 2008 05:22:41 PM
In recent interviews Carter and Spotnitz had said that The X-Files always was a love story. Weird, I remember they used to say the X-Files was about telling scary stories. Anyways, I think they caved in to those fans that only cared about Mulder and Scully kissing each other, and turned the show into a lame sci-fi soap opera during it's last years. I hope this movie is not that type of love story, not again.
I Want To Believe thats not a shitty title!! by BMacSmith	Jun 24th, 2008 07:45:54 PM
but i just can't! and i thought X-men United was a lame subtitle
"Creative" and "great" by bah	Jun 24th, 2008 08:08:03 PM
I mean, I like the guy's work on XFiles, but even Shyamalan isn't quite so blatant about kissing his own ass.
There has to be at least one more movie by Mindtrip	Jun 26th, 2008 06:50:40 PM
I forget the exact date, but wasn't the big alien/super-soldier takeover scheduled for something like 12-29-2012?

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