Glass Onion Composer Nathan Johnson on Kids’ Movies Made with Cousin Rian: “Hidden in a Drawer Never Revealed to the Public” – Crew Call Podcast

While original adult films haven’t fared well in the shadow of tentpoles at the box office lately, Netflix’s week-long Thanksgiving preview Glass Onion: A Mystery of Blades The tide seems to be turning in the short term ahead of action on December 23rd.

Today on Crew Call we talk to filmmaker Rian Johnson’s cousin, Nathan Johnson, who composed on the big screen from the former Canon Sans Star Wars: The Last Jedi (where of course he was replaced by original franchise composer John Williams).

As Netflix boasted knife out 2 and 3 for 400 million dollars, glass onion Here, of course, is a much bigger, fancier, $40 million sequel to the original theatrical run. This is not only reflected in the new mystery that unfolds at a Techitan’s (Edward Norton Greek) estate among his rich friends, but also in the score. Benoit Blanc, Daniel Craig’s world-famous detective, is also at the crime scene and expects a gruesome murder that he wants to solve in a viable way.

“We wanted to make everything bigger while still respecting the sandbox we set up with the first one knife outJohnson told Crew Call today that the 70-track sequel’s orchestra shoots out, punctuated by harpsichord and haunting melodies.

“We brought back the quartet (from the first film), augmented by the orchestra that played like crazy,” adds the composer.

The Johnsons’ musical starting point was Nino Rota’s score for the 1978 version Death on the Nile for a “lush, lush, romantic European sound”.

“Rian was very excited to hear all the instruments, which were precise and concise and not just a flood of sound,” adds Johnson.

“Rian talks about how when he writes it, he doesn’t want to do a crossword puzzle, he wants to do a roller coaster ride,” says the composer, as the score is supposed to do the same.

As children in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado, the two began producing poor films on 8MM and developing video technologies, with film scores by John Williams as soundtracks.

“Every time we got together, we did a movie,” says Johnson.

But will we see that early collaboration before the Johnson films brick grinder, and the first knife out Well, “They are hidden in a drawer and will never be revealed to the public.”

Listen to our conversation with Nathan Johnson about it below glass onion