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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB
Well, firing Ottman isn't the worst decision ever.
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Ottman is a capable composer, but DoFP and Apocalypse would have you think differently -- they're not very good at all. Give him permission to write a full-blooded orchestral score, though, and he'll do a great job -- Fox execs seem petrified of going that route unfortunately.
Ottman probably was never going to get the job anyway, as he's Singer's favorite (who of course is nowhere to be found these days, though I hope Ottman's career doesn't suffer for that).
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Originally Posted by ZariusTwo
Well that retirement from superhero scoring did'nt last long
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You have to understand that a lot of these Zimmer scores - not all, but a lot - have swaths of material not directly written by Zimmer. Zimmer enjoys finding young, talented guys and giving them jobs -- big-budget jobs -- that they otherwise wouldn't have in a million years.
Amazing Spider-Man 2, for instance, was him just jamming out with some buddies.
Blade Runner 2049 featured more music by Ben Wallfisch than Zimmer. So when he takes jobs like this it isn't for him. He gets blanket credit but in reality he will take the role of overseer - write some themes and maybe the bigger action cues - while others do some of the nitty-gritty stuff. On PotC 3 he had at least 8 people writing additional material, some of whom in the decade since have their own careers established now.
Then later music execs can look through the cue sheet or whatever and see that, hmm, a guy named Henry Jackman worked on this good one, and this one here... maybe he can handle the responsibility of a full movie while emulating Zimmer's style. That's exactly how Junkie XL got the
Justice League job (before you-know-what happened).