Ed Norton has got some talented friends, in high places. Speaking at the Variety Screening Series (via Pitchfork) presentation of his upcoming legal/sexual thriller “Stone,” Norton reveals Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood helped inspire the score for the film by John O’Brien.
“I’m friends with the guys in Radiohead. And Johnny Greenwood, who did the incredible score for Paul Anderson’s ‘There Will Be Blood,’ met me in London a while back when John (Curran) and I were developing the script,” Norton recalls.
“So given the spiritual ties in this film, I started talking to him about this idea: ‘What would you use to record this divine-like tuning sound?’ And he and Thom (Yorke) had been playing a lot of weird ambient stuff at the time and so, amazingly, they just unloaded tons and tons of files to us of these sound experiments that they had been doing. We just listened to them in awe until John (Curran) eventually got John O’Brien to come in and see what he could make of it.”
It’s unclear if O’Brien used the sound files as a jumping off point for his own score or re-cut and re-assembled the material; there is no composer credit for the film that we can find. We’re just mostly amazed Radiohead handed over tapes of their experiments; we’d kill to hear it. You can go over the film’s official site and hear some of the music from the film, and parts of it definitely sound like it could easily have come from Yorke/Greenwood.
As for the film, the reviews from TIFF were not good and advance word in general is not strong on the film. “Stone,” starring Ed Norton, Robert De Niro and Milla Jovovich, opens in limited release starting October 8th.