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Variety<\/a><\/i> has an interesting story up now on the story behind Peter Jackson\u2019s last-minute decision to replace<\/a> composer Howard Shore with James Newton Howard on his remake of King Kong<\/i>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Howard, a six-time Oscar nominee whose scores include \u201cThe Sixth Sense\u201d and \u201cThe Village,\u201d replaced Howard Shore as composer on the film. Shore \u2014 whose cameo as the pit-band conductor during Kong\u2019s New York theater appearance survives the cut \u2014 won three Oscars for his music<\/a> for \u201cKong\u201d director Peter Jackson\u2019s \u201cThe Lord of the Rings<\/a>\u201d movies.<\/p>\n

The last-minute change stunned the film-music community because of Shore\u2019s close collaboration with Jackson over nearly four years of work on the trilogy. Jackson\u2019s only public comment came in an Oct. 14 statement<\/a>: \u201cDuring the last few weeks, Howard and I came to realize that we had differing creative aspirations. \u2026 Rather than waste time arguing with a friend and trying to unify our points of view, we decided amicably to let another composer score the film.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sources say Shore recorded his unfinished \u201cKong\u201d score for nine days (three in Berlin, six in Wellington with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra). Shore and Howard declined interview requests, but sources say \u2014 although Shore had been working on themes for months in advance \u2014 post-production was running so late that he could not spend sufficient time with the edited film.<\/p>\n

Unlike most film composers, Shore orchestrates and conducts his music. He averaged eight minutes of recording per day on the \u201cKong\u201d score, none of which will be used. He has told friends that Jackson\u2019s press statement is essentially correct, that the decision to stop was not a Universal mandate (as had been widely speculated after the mid-October revelation<\/a> that the film\u2019s running time had ballooned to three hours and that the studio was negotiating with Jackson about how to cover the extra $32 million required to finish the movie).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Among other interesting and amusing details, the article also reveals that James Newton Howard composed the main themes for the film in just three days. Wow. Here\u2019s hoping it all works!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Variety has an interesting story up now on the story behind Peter Jackson\u2019s last-minute decision to replace composer Howard Shore with James Newton Howard on his remake of King Kong: Howard, a six-time Oscar nominee whose scores include \u201cThe Sixth Sense\u201d and \u201cThe Village,\u201d replaced Howard Shore as composer on the film. 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