The Thing filmmaker John Carpenter has paid tribute to the late Ennio Morricone’s work on his horror film.Carpenter, who usually scored his own films, was suggested “Maestro Morricone” by the film’s associate producer Stuart Cohen, due to Morricone’s experience in “experimental music, a strange place,” the filmmaker recalls.Read more: Il Maestro: Ennio Morricone’s 10 best film scoresCarpenter explained to IndieWire how The Thing theme came to be, through close collaboration “It was all way too flourishy and ornate,” said Carpenter of Morricone’s first draft. “I said to him, ‘Ennio, use less notes.’ And he did.
That was the main title theme.”“He added something to it, that I didn’t realize, didn’t ask for. He brought it: this deep, tragic.
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