![]() ![]() "You'll look at a weathercock spinning, but you'll hear a Tibetan bowl, and your head will say, 'Wow, listen to that sound,' " he said. Mancina suggested in at least one scene using instruments to create the sound of wheat blowing or the creak of barn hinges. To make August's power to channel music out of thin air convincing, Mr. Highmore slapping the instrument like a favorite drum. Rhys-Meyers's character and the two play dueling guitars, with Mr. Highmore recently shot a crucial scene in which he meets Mr. My choice was, he taps on it more like a percussion instrument, and I felt that could be believable." In fact, Mr. "If he plays amazingly, it would be a groaner. "For instance, we discussed when he sees a guitar for the first time, what would he do?" Mr. Zimmer, spitballing ideas that would seem real when filmed by Ms. To get the audience to believe in August's journey from kid without an instrument to self-taught virtuoso, Mr. Mancina, speaking by telephone from Los Angeles. "What appealed to me about this is that it was somewhere in between a musical and a regular film," said Mr. Much of the heavier musical lifting was left to the veteran composer Mark Mancina, who was a music producer and arranger on "The Lion King" and who collaborated with Hans Zimmer on "August Rush." "And there are people from the musical world working on this picture, which is quite unique." "Every character in this movie, you have to believe them," he said. Rhys-Meyers slung his guitar and wailed to a playback of his own recorded voice. Ramone appeared satisfied with the way Mr. Audiences treated to displays of virtuosity in pictures like "Ray" and "Walk the Line," he explained, have become too sophisticated to accept a halfhearted musical performance on film.īut Mr. Ramone, dressed in a black leather jacket and wearing tinted glasses, spoke from a velvet couch in the lobby of the Irving Plaza theater. Ramone said of the challenge posed by musically themed pictures.īrought in for a few days to oversee the authenticity of the film's sound, Mr. Some of that work fell to Phil Ramone, the music producer, who has overseen albums for the likes of Bob Dylan and Ray Charles and has had a hand in other movies, like "Flashdance" and "White Knights," in which music drives the story. Highmore's increasingly ambitious compositions, some of which take place in his head. Russell's cellist-character with the grittier guitar riffs of Mr. Lewis had spent heavily to realize a vision that was influenced, he said, by his having seen the show "Oliver!" in London's West End when he was 10.ĭuring a break on the Washington Square set, the producer, who is stout and affable, also explained the difficulty of integrating the mathematically complex Bach compositions played by Ms. Best known as a producer of the revived "Outer Limits" television series during the 1990's, Mr. Lewis said recently of the two-year struggle with writing and casting that preceded his visit to Mr. "I was out seven figures of my own pocket before anybody came in with a dime," Mr. For August, music becomes the key to independence, and perhaps to conjuring parents he has never met. Williams and called only the Wizard, who protects itinerant young street musicians for a cut of their take. He escapes and comes under the tutelage of a modern-day Fagin, played by Mr. Highmore, is abandoned by his parents and grows up in a New York City orphanage. Sheridan, who was nominated for an Oscar with her father, Jim Sheridan, and sister, Naomi, for writing "In America," to deliver on an unusual tale about a boy who can visualize the music around us as others see smoke rise or leaves fall. ![]() A rarity among contemporary studio projects, it is a personal movie gambling on the ability of Ms. The resulting film, "August Rush," which is now shooting in New York, has a cast that includes Robin Williams, Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. Highmore in dailies from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" - did not say no. Horn - who liked a draft of the script co-written by the director and the producer, and who that day had been impressed by Mr. And the story, by the way, was a musical fable - an original, with no pre-existing novel, comic book or stage play to guarantee an audience. The director, he said, would be Kirsten Sheridan, whose credits included a handful of shorts and one very independent Irish feature. Lewis explained that he wanted to make a picture with Freddie Highmore, who was about 13 at the time and known mostly as one of the kids in "Finding Neverland." ![]() Horn, the president and chief operating officer of Warner Brothers Pictures, Mr. Pitching his heart out last year in the Burbank office of Alan F. ![]() THE producer Richard Lewis knew he was trying to defy gravity, Hollywood-style. ![]()
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