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The Record Club & Shipley Film Society Present MOON & Hunky Dory 22nd January

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The Record Club & Shipley Film Society Present MOON, Hnky Dory & PWEIAnyone near Shipley, West Yorkshire has a unique opportunity to attend a great evening of film and music.

The Record Club along with Shipley Film Society are holding an evening of film & music on Sunday, January 22nd. A screening of Duncan Jones award winning 2009 debut MOON starring Sam Rockwell, will be followed by a full play through of David Bowie’s 1971 classic album Hunky Dory (celebrating it’s 40th Birthday!) on vinyl :)

The Record Club were inspired by reading an article on the BBC News site on record clubs and the idea of returning to listening to vinyl LPs all the way through, as originally intended by the recording artiste. Shipley Film Society’s aim is to bring together like minded people for film viewing and discussion over a few drinks afterwards. Combine the two and you have what promises to be a wonderful evening of film & music with a bunch of great people to boot!

As well as MOON & Hunky Dory, the evening will also be mixing in associated music including records from MOON score composer Clint Mansell’s former band Pop Will Eat Itself. Shipley Film Society have also requested that anyone that owns 7″ vinyl copies of Chesney Hawkes ‘The One and Only’ and Katrina & The Waves ‘Walking On Sunshine’ bring them along too. If you’ve seen MOON you’ll know why, if not…

When: Sunday, January 22nd 2012 @ 19:00

Where: The Kirkgate Centre, Shipley, BD18 3RR

Full details at The Record Club site, and the Shipley Film Society site.

MOON Credits By Adrien Dezalay

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Film maker, photographer and musician Adrien Dezalay recently popped up his own version of the credits to Duncan Jones’ 2009 debut feature MOON so we thought you might like to have a look at an alternative vision, as Adrien explains:

A few years ago, I watched MOON in a theatre in London. Back home, I could still hear the Clint Mansell score in my head. That’s when I thought of making a graphic video related to the movie. The small budget / minimalist picture, a bit like Vincenzo Natali’s CUBE, was perfect to work with because I just wanted to use lines and three colors. I find very hard to explain art, but I’d say that the infinite cloning process in the movie is represented by these lines and the red ones are clones like Sam Bell. Well – something like that!

 

MOON: Fan Art Sam Bell Meets LucasArts

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This is so fantastic, I can’t type quick enough to get the post finished and hit “publish”. Danish MOON fan Mads Johansen has only gone and created an image of what a MOON point & click adventure would look like, if created by those wonderful people over at LucasArts using the SCUMM creation tool, famously used for such classics as The Monkey Island series, Full Throttle, The Dig and many more. Games that stole many hours of my youth (and admittedly may continue to do so as they are re-released for the touch device generation of handheld devices)

Mads Johansen - SCUMM MOON

Mads Johansen - SCUMM MOON 2011

Mads explains:

If I played this game back in ´91, I think my brain would literally blow up.
It just started with me wanting to do some nice SCUMM fan-art, but the further I got with this, the more I felt that the narrative of this particular flick would fit awesomely with the whole point’n'clicky thing.

Except for maybe the lack of a character gallery. It was pretty tough for me completing games like Secret of Monkey Island, because as a 12 year old danish kid, I didn’t really have a clue what a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle was, for example… and the artwork was also pretty tough to decrypt at times… but now I know how hard it is to do Sam Bell, when you only have about 12×12 pixels to do it on :D Anyway, hope you like this one… I might do more, I dunno yet.

Yes, Mads. Please, we’d love to see more :) Head over to Mads’ sketch blog for more of his amazing artwork. I’m off to play some Monkey Island!

UPDATE: No way we could let this pass, comment from SCUMM creator, and computer gaming Legend Ron Gilbert:

Moon would have made a great SCUMM game.

MOON Director Duncan Jones has also been overwhelmed by Mads artwork:

I want to play that!!! I want to hear Clint Mansell’s score in 8-bit audio!! Seriously.. that was one of the best things I have seen in ever. That needs to be an Iphone game…IPad too…Seriously thinking that if there was ever to be a direct Moon sequel, it may work best as a point and click adventure.

Finally tweeting back to Ron Gilbert:

you stole too many hours of my youth to count. Thank you.

That all goes way beyond awesome :) *collapses*

MOON Inspires Hip Hop EP Selene

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MOON Hip Hop Project 'Selene'Take one Classic Sci-Fi movie, add a stunning soundtrack from Clint Mansell and leave to simmer in the imaginations of all who have seen, and at some point, someone is going to be inspired to create a Hip Hop EP right?

Sampling dialogue from that movie, Duncan Jones debut feature ‘MOON‘ starring Sam Rockwell, and the stunning Clint Mansell score, producer Max Tannone has done just that, telling io9:

I saw this movie, loved it, and thought the original soundtrack written by Clint Mansell was great as well. Each track samples a song from the film’s score. To complete Selene, I teamed up with Brooklyn rap artist Richard Rich to provide the lyrics. His raps include themes like isolation, separation, self-realization, and cloning.

Head over to SELENE (Greek Titan goddess of the Moon btw) to listen to the 5 track EP now, where you can also download the EP, for free.

Clint Mansell’s score for MOON is available from all the usual music outlets, physical copy, and download stores, so do yourself a favour and grab a copy if you haven’t already.

Chris Bacon Replaces Clint Mansell to Score Source Code

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Chris Bacon To Score Source Code

Chris Bacon

As reported last night, Clint Mansell will no longer be scoring Source Code due to scheduling conflicts. Replacing Clint will be new, up and coming composer Chris Bacon

Chris comes highly recommended as confirmed by Duncan’s tweet in response to a question from @TwinMadeFilms on Twitter:

“very talented young guy called Chris Bacon, who was recommended by my editor, the legendary Paul Hirsch.”

Sad to see Clint won’t be working on Source Code now, after a stunning first collaboration with Duncan on MOON, but with such a glowing recommendation, and trust in Duncan’s descision to go with Chris, I’m confident we’re on track for something special.

As you will see from Chris’s IMDB entry, he has a wealth of experience working on some very high profile projects such as King Kong (2005), Blood Diamond (2006), I Am Legend (2007) and The Dark Knight (2008) and as main composer of 10 films including the Disney documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009), Alpha and Omega (2010) and Gnomeo and Juliet (2011)

Good luck with the gig, Chris! :)

Clint Mansell Will Not Be Scoring Source Code

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A busy few days stretch out in front of Source Code Director Duncan Jones, currently attending the recording of the films score with a 70 piece orchestra in LA.

He has announced via Twitter though, that Clint Mansell, who scored Duncan’s first feature MOON, will not be scoring Source Code as previously confirmed.

“Unfortunately we weren’t able to work out a schedule so Clint could do the score in the end. He has been a very busy bee.”

We were all obviously excited to hear that Clint & Duncan would be working together again, but as the recording of the score is up and running already, I’m sure all is in hand to give a nice bit of the old aural.

Will update as soon as we get further details on the score as it is recorded.

UPDATE Further details from Badass Digest confirming scheduling conflicts, and details on new composer Chris Bacon. Check Badass for further details.

MOON Up For More Awards As Source Code Gets Closer To Completion

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MOON Up For More Awards

Nathan Parker, Sam Rockwell, Duncan Jones - Sundance 2009

Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images North America

Duncan Jones & Nathan Parker have been nominated in the Writers Guild Of Great Britain 2010 Awards,  in the category of Best First Feature-Length Screenplay.

The awards are set to be announced at a reception on Sunday, November 21st, and we’ll be sure to let you know if there is another win for MOON. Full list of nominations are:

  • The Hide – Tim Whitnall
  • Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll – Paul Viragh
  • Moon – Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker

Best of luck chaps! :)

Source Code Gets Closer To Completion

We also have a wee Source Code update for you this evening as Duncan tweeted earlier, typing from his safe British seat in LA

Duncan Jones British Seat

Getting close to finishing Source Code now… Hopefully we are doing the last chunk of ADR with Jake today. Effects keep rolling in.

Soon, all that will remain is the recording of the Source Code score, which, as you may recall, will see Duncan re-united with the writer of the incredible MOON soundtrack, Clint Mansell.

March 2011 release is getting closer :)

Duncan Jones Confirms Clint Mansell to Score Source Code

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Super Star Clint MansellJust confirmed via the marvellous media of the Tweet, from Source Code Director Duncan Jones:

Have a bloody fantastic bit of Source Code news. Super star Clint Mansell WILL be scoring the film. You have no idea how relieved I am.

Consider anticipation for Source Code cranked up a good few notches (and it was high enough already). Absolutely fantastic news, that we have all been eagerly awaiting.

WOOOO and a HOOOOOOOOOOOO :)

MOON in Ten Categories for BAFTA Awards 2010 1st Round

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The longlist for the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2010 has been announced this morning, and MOON features in 10 categories!! Full list can be view on the BAFTA site HERE

The Long List

Over 6000 members of the Academy vote in three rounds to decide the winners of the Orange British Academy Film Awards. The Long List is the result of Round One voting by members of the Academy. With 220 films entered this year, the first round of voting reduces the films down to fifteen in each category. Round Two voting will reduce these fifteen contenders down to the five nominations in each category.

The full list of nominations will be announced on Thursday 21 January at BAFTA Headquarters.

MOON has been nominated for:

  • Best Film
  • Director
  • Original Screenplay
  • Special Visual Effects
  • Sound
  • Editing
  • Production Design
  • Cinematography
  • Music
  • Leading ActorSam Rockwell (Sam Bell)

No nomination for Supporting Actor for Sam Rockwell though, what does a man have to do??

So there we go, a 2 week wait until we discover whether MOON makes it into the final nominations, fantastic showing for a debut Director so far though :)