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1. Basil Poledouris: A Man and His Music

Film composer Basil Poledouris unfolded a tapestry of musical styles in over 55 television and motion picture scores. When you have a wide palette of styles and ideas that can fit almost...

Thursday, 02 July 2009 | 1134 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

2. Composer Alan Silvestri Disavowed

By the time he was signed to score the 1996 feature film production of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, Alan Silvestri had already amassed a list of credits that included DELTA FORCE...

Tuesday, 17 February 2009 | 4808 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

3. Composer: Wendy Carlos

Wendy Carlos first achieved notice with the release of a pair of Switched-On Bach recordings in 1968, adapting the famous classical material for a synthesizer developed by Carlos and engineer Robert Moog.

Wednesday, 11 June 2008 | 775 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

4. Danny Elfman on Scoring MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE #1

Danny Elfman came into the first MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE movie late in the game, with only five weeks left to compose, orchestrate, and record more than an hour’s worth of symphonic music.

Wednesday, 11 February 2009 | 1302 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

5. Emilio Estevez on Working with Basil Poledouris

ve been a fan of his work for years and I was thinking, with a movie with a total budget of 4.2 million dollars, the chances of getting someone like Basil, who does enormous orchestral scores, was slim to none.

Sunday, 20 December 2009 | 803 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

6. Hans Zimmer: Scoring M:i-2

It was at the end of April, almost a month before the film’s release, when composer Hans Zimmer most likely began to record his film score to the new Paramount summer blockbuster MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2.

Tuesday, 17 February 2009 | 863 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

7. John Milius on Working with Basil Poledouris

All of my films except THE WIND AND THE LION and DILLINGER because they wouldn’t let him then. And the one I just finished, THE ROUGH RIDERS, he didn’t score because Verhoeven wouldn’t let him.

Sunday, 20 December 2009 | 1592 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

8. Lalo Schifrin on creating MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

Composer Lalo Schifrin has composed more than one hundred scores for motion picture and television over the last thirty five years, not including his work in jazz, opera, and the classical arena. His film projects include THE CINCINNATI KID, COOL HAND LUKE, THE FOX...

Sunday, 08 February 2009 | 3084 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

9. Making it Rock, The MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE Theme

In the first motion picture, directed by Brian De Palma, Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton, the drummer and bass player for the Irish rock band U2, were hired for the reinterpretation.

Saturday, 14 February 2009 | 1676 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

10. Paul Verhoeven on Working with Basil Poledouris

I met Basil around ‘84 when I was doing FLESH AND BLOOD for Orion. We were looking for a composer and Mike Medavoy, head of production at Orion, mentioned him together with Horner and Goldsmith.

Sunday, 20 December 2009 | 1169 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report