I am a couple days late in posting this but let me bring you up to speed about day 1 during Wondercon 2011 in San Francisco. My first day was filled with a lot of excitment attending panels and press events. One press event in particular really quite fun. I had the honor and privilege to be among seven film/tv/video game composers. Those in attendace were Nathan Barr, Marco Beltrami, Sean Callery, Jim Dooley, Scott Starrett, Michael Suby, and Bryan Fuller. I was fortunate enough to talk with Nathan Barr, Marco Beltrami, and Jim Dooley. It was overwhelming to talk with all three of these talented individuals but I enjoyed every moment of it. Here’s my interviews along with some background information provided by CW3PR:
NATHAN BARR:
Nathan Barr has come a long way since working as an assisstant to world-renowned composer Hans Zimmer. Barr has since composed original music for film and television. Film credits include: The Ledge, The Last Exorcism, and Open House. He was recently tapped to score 30 Minutes Or Less, a movie directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland). Barr has also written and performed the music for all four seasons of HBO’s True Blood
UPCOMING PROJECTS: True Blood, HBO Season 4 premiere, June 2011; 30 Minutes Or Less starring Jesse Eisenberg, wide release August 12
MARCO BELTRAMI:
Marco Beltrami is a film and television composer who reunited with Wes Craven to create the original music for the highly anticipated Scream 4 set to release April 15, 2011. Beltrami is also composing music for ABC’s highly accaimed television series V, now in its second season. Other film and TV credits include: Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3, The Hurt Locker, 3:10 To Yuma, Guillermo del Toro’s Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark (releasing August 12, 2011), and The Practice
UPCOMING PROJECTS: Scream 4, wide-release April 15, 2011
JIM DOOLEY:
Jim Dooley is an Emmy-winning composer well known in film, television, and video game circles. Credits include: The Da Vinci Code, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Obsessed, Pushing Daises, and Disney’s Epic Mickey. He reccently finished the score to Carmel, an independent film starring Hayden Panettiere, Lauren Bacall and Josh Hutcherson. Dooley also completed the original music for the animated feature film Dorothy Of Oz, which is slated for a 2012 release.
UPCOMING PROJECTS: Pushing Daises: season 2; soundtrack release April 5, 2011
To interview Nathan Barr, Marco Beltrami, and Jim Dooley was incredible and was a day during Wondercon 2o11 that I’ll never forget. I want to thank all three of these composers for their time and look forward their future projects. I also want to thank CW3PR for setting up the press event and allowing the interviews to take place. Finally to find out more about Nathan Barr, Marco Beltrami, and Jim Dooley on the web, here are their links:
http://www.nathanbarr.com/
http://www.marcobeltrami.com/
http://www.jimdooley.com/
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