And yet there are more Toronto International Film Festival music n’ movies connections today.
We already charted the use of Montreal Franchophone indie rockers Malajube in the new Jay Baruchel film, “The Trotsky,” and L.A. string players, The Section Quartet composing the music for Drew Barrymore’s rollerskate derby comedy “Whip it!” starring Ellen Page, so fans of notable and innovative composers should be incredibly curious to learn about this new collaboration.
Clint Mansell (“Moon,” “Requiem For A Dream”) and Michael Penn (“Boogie Nights, ” “Hard Eight,” “Sunshine Cleaning”) have apparently teamed-up to score the Michael Douglas dramedy, “Solitary Man,” which co-stars Jessie Eisenberg (first looks pics all around).
Directed by Brian Koppelman and David Levien, the writer-director pair behind, “Knockaround Guys” (which Mansell also scored) and the scriptwriters for “Ocean’s Thirteen,” “The Girlfriend Experience,” the film doesn’t sound unlike, “The Wonder Boys,” with an older man in a bit of crisis, with perhaps some youngin’ like Eisenberg helping him out, but it’s hard to tell (Oh yeah, Soderbergh is naturally one of the producers). Here’s the synop:
Ben Kalmen (Michael Douglas) is feeling his age, but you wouldn’t know it from the company he keeps. A former mogul with a chain of car dealerships, until legal troubles knocked him out of business, Ben now keeps a grip on the world through his relationships with women – many women.
Truthfully, we’re not sure its a true musical collaboration, the two composers are simply listed together in the film’s TIFF credits and its conceivable that the two artists worked independently of each other, but here’s to hoping, if anything, simply because a collabo could create something possibly really unique. Color us intrigued.
The cast to “Solitary Man,” also includes Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito, Mary Louise Parker and Jenna Fischer (sounds like a great line-up) and will premiere some time during TIFF which runs Sept 10-19.