Danny Elfman Scoring Sacha Gervasi’s ‘Hitchcock,’ And ‘Promised Land’ From Gus Van Sant
By Russ Fischer/Sept. 13, 2012 12:14 pm EST
Two new movies that will bear music from Elfman are Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land, starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski, and Hitchcock, which chronicles the efforts by the Master of Suspense to make Psycho.
Both of these projects make total sense given Elfman’s prior output. Elfman and Gus Van Sant have worked together steadily since the mid-’90s, when Elfman and Van Sant did To Die For. And the director’s last two films (Milk and Restless) were scored by Elfman, so this will be three in a row.
That brings us to Elfman’s other new project. One of the ’90s films from Van Sant that Elfman worked on was the director’s strange shot-for-shot remake of Psycho, where Elfman is credited with reworking Bernard Herrmann’s iconic score. And so Elfman is now scoring Sacha Gervasi’s film that dramatizes the making of Psycho. There’s a weird closing of a circle there. In Hitchcock, Anthony Hopkins plays Hitch, and Scarlett Johannson, Helen Mirren and Jessica Biel are on hand as the key women in the process of creating Psycho.
