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Composer Alexandre Desplat on a Summer That Includes ‘Jurassic World,’ ‘Phoenician Scheme’ and His First Hollywood Bowl Show: ‘It’s a Dream I’ve Had Since I Was a Kid’
Alexandre Desplat talks about his doing his first Hollywood Bowl show and his scores for 'Jurassic World,' 'Phoenician Scheme' and 'Frankenstein.'
That’s not just for the quality of the work — although, as his list of 11 Oscar nominations and two wins would indicate, there is that — but the expanse of styles and sheer breadth of his filmography, whether he’s doing ear-ticklingly eccentric scores for smaller-scale pictures or satisfyingly symphonic ones for the blockbusters. Desplat did a Zoom session with Variety from London, as he was wrapping up the last recordings of his score for Guillermo Del Toro’s “Frankenstein.” That will put quite a cap on a year that, just in the release slate of the last two months, has seen the composer charming audiences with the music for both “Jurassic World Rebirth” and “The Phoenician Scheme,” as big a gamut as any succession of movies in his career. “Godzilla” makes a good overture because it’s very powerful and there’s lots of action going on, and then we can go into more intimate pieces like “Girl With a Golden Earring.”And “Harry Potter” is kind of the fireworks to end the concert because, there again, the orchestra is blasting out every second.
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