With News of the World, composer James Newton Howard returned to the Western genre for the first time in many years. In concert with director Paul Greengrass, he’d craft a more somber, inward-looking score than is often heard in the genre—“broken” music for a broken nation.The Universal Pictures title centers on Captain Kidd (Tom Hanks), a Civil War veteran who travels across the U.S.
to share the day’s news with small-town folks. While in Texas, the lonesome character encounters a 10-year-old girl named Johanna (Helena Zengel), who had been abducted at a young age by the Kiowa tribe, and looks to return her to her family.In conversation with Deadline, Howard breaks down the range of instruments in his score that coalesced into something
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