More changes on Warner Brothers’ Justice League movie…
Last month it was revealed that Zack Snyder has stepped down from Justice League after a devastating family tragedy, leaving it to Joss Whedon to finish before it’s big November release (here) and now there’s another change for the movie.
It has been revealed that Antonius Tom Holkenborg, aka Junkie XL, who was working with Snyder on the movie, is no longer scoring the movie and will be replaced by Danny Elfman.
XL, who did a masterful job along with Hans Zimmer on the Batman V Superman score under Snyder (he also scored Deadpool and Mad Max: Fury Road) is, according to reports, now moving on to scoring the new Tomb Raider movie.
However, he’s being replaced by Elfman, himself no stranger to superhero movies having scored Batman, Batman Returns, Spider-man, Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron (oh, and he composed the Simpsons theme) and much more.
We’re really torn here at FTN because we genuinely adore the Batman V Superman score, but Elfman’s iconic 1989 Batman score is still to this day one of the greatest comic book movie scores – second only to Superman, perhaps – and Elfman is probably our favourite composer after John Williams.
On his departure, Junkie XL said: “As my mentor Hans Zimmer told me — you haven’t made it in Hollywood as a composer until you get replaced on a project. So I guess [I] finally graduated this week. It pains me to leave the project, but a big thanks to Zack for asking me to part of his vision, and I wish Danny, Joss and Warner Bros all the best with Justice League.”
Of course, many are saying this is further proof that Snyder’s vision for Justice League is being deconstructed now that he’s off the project and Whedon is in control. We doubt this is the case as we know Warners offered to delay release of the movie until Snyder was ready to return. And we also know that Whedon was brought in by Snyder to work on the movie.
While we don’t know exactly what happened with XL, we’re going to say that we’re excited to pick up the Justice League Score on CD and seeing Danny Elfman’s name on the sleeve.
Or is that just us?
Marc
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