Guillermo del Toro has completed his first day of shooting on
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army and with that brings news of a change in composer.
Danny Elfman will score the movie instead of
Marco Beltrami who scored the first Hellboy movie back in 2004. I love Elfman's music (although with his collaborations with
Tim Burton, his music is getting a little stale and sounds the same in every frikkin movie of his) and I've always thought a Universal Horror movie with Elfman's score would blend perfectly. And I guess at the end of the day, that's what this new Hellboy movie will be. It's being produced by Unviersal and it's a flick full of monsters. From
Shock Till You Drop, with the info they found through
DelToroFilms...
"I feel privileged," Del Toro tells the site. "I have worked with Marco Beltrami many times and will work with him soon enough but I believe we will have a beautiful score with Elfman, whom I admire greatly - in fact the 'Title sequence' music cue had the 'Ta-de-dum-ta-de-dum' rythm by explicit request by me in an atempt to make it kind of Elfmanesque - and with whom I share a dark view of the world."
Hellboy's a real shame with me. I don't like the character very much but I love the way it was directed and I love the imagery of the monsters and especially that Nazi villain guy Kroenen. I want to like it and be excited for it, but I just can't.