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John Carpenter Wanted to Use Metallica for the Opening Credits of ‘In the Mouth of Madness’
While Halloween, The Thing, and Escape From New York are John Carpenter staples, his Lovecraftian In the Mouth of Madness has always been one of my personal favorites. Carried by Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill‘s performance as an insurance investigator in search of famed horror author Sutter Cane, the 1994 horror film also boasted an electric score by Carpenter and Jim Lang.
Out today, John Carpenter Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998 brings together 13 classic themes from Carpenter’s illustrious career together on one volume for the first time. The opening track is that from In the Mouth of Madness, a Metallica-inspired riff originally played for the film by Kinks guitarist Dave Davies, and now played by his son Daniel Davies.
Carpenter, in speaking to CoS, explains why the theme song is in the vein of something off Metallica’s famed self-titled 1991 album:
“Jim [Lang] tried his hand at a main theme, and it just didn’t go,” Carpenter explained.
“What I really wanted was … I wanted Metallica. We tried to get ‘Enter Sandman’, but we couldn’t afford it, or they wouldn’t give it to us.
“I can’t remember what it was, but probably that they wouldn’t give it to us. I sat down and developed this theme on my own because I wanted something that gets up and goes there, you know? Not some spooky music. I wanted something to sound like heavy metal, and that’s what you hear.”
It all makes sense now…
Sony returns to their own Marvel universe with the upcoming Kraven the Hunter, which has been bumped all over the release schedule. This week, it’s been bumped once more.
There was a time when Sony was going to unleash Kraven in theaters in October 2023, but the film was then bumped to August 2024. It’ll now release on December 13, 2024.
Kraven the Hunter will be the very first Marvel movie from Sony to be released into theaters with an “R” rating, with lots of bloody violence being promised.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the title character, Marvel’s ultimate predator.
“Kraven the Hunter is the visceral story about how and why one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Set before his notorious vendetta with Spider-Man, Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the titular character in the R-rated film.”
Ariana DeBose will play Calypso in the upcoming Kraven the Hunter movie.
Christopher Abbott (Possessor) is playing The Foreigner, with Levi Miller (Better Watch Out) also on board. Alessandro Nivola (The Many Saints of Newark) will play another villain, but character details are under wraps. Russell Crowe and Fred Hechinger also star.
J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year) is directing Kraven the Hunter.
The screenplay was written by Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Richard Wenk.
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