Surprise, surprise. Composer Clint Mansell has scored all of Darren Aronofsky’s films (most notableRequiem for a Dream and The Wrestler) and now he will be working on his upcoming project, Black Swan. In an interview with Little White Lies magazine (via The Playlist) he talked about his involvement and plans for the score, which include drawing from elements solely in Tchaikovsky’s 19th century ballet, Swan Lake. Check out the quote below.
Well it’s all really embryonic at the moment, one of the main ideas we’ve got is building the entire score out of elements from Swan Lake. I mean it would have to be vastly screwed with, but that’s a starting point. Sometimes we’ve had ideas in the past and you put them into practice and they just suck, so we’ll see. Darren only just started shooting so for now it’s about doing the nuts and bolts really and providing him just what he needs to shoot with and in January I’ll start to mess around with some of the things we’ve talked about.
As we reported previously Moon director Duncan Jones will be taking on Source Code, the script that was on the 2007 Black List, with Jake Gyllenhaal to star. After scoring Moon, Mansell also spoke a bit about the next project from Jones:
Well I think Duncan is a terrific guy, he’s really talented and I’d love to do more films with him. I suppose the problem could be that you don’t know what the studio is gonna want and they might look at the the rest of his team, me included, and we might be seen as not having the experience that the studio is looking for. So it might be a case where Duncan has to do what it is he has to do so he can progress. He hasn’t done a big budget film with an A-list star, he might love that or he might think ‘fuck this it ain’t for me I don’t wanna do it anymore’, but he’s gotta find that out.
It’s too bad Jones may get forced to use a different composer now that he is in the Hollywood system, but I’ll still hold out some hope. I’m quite excited Aronofsky’s film is being made and it will be hard for Mansell to live up to his Fountain score, but I’m looking forward to be proven wrong. /Film highlighted that Last.FM has some soundtrack previews from Swan Lake, which you can check out there.
Do you enjoy Mansell’s work? What do you think about him incorporating element’s fromTchaikovsky’s ballet?
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