Danny Elfman is to set to reteam (via Collider) with director Gus Van Sant, penning the score to the forthcoming “Restless” (yes, we know the film became untitled last year, but that’s how Elfman referred to it, so perhaps its back in?).
Elfman, who was spoofed in a fairly spot on parody we posted yesterday, has worked on Van Sant’s previous big studio films including “To Die For,” “Milk,” “Psycho” and “Good Will Hunting” (all of them being some of his better work in the last two decades). His hiring here continues the trend as “Restless” is another studio project for Van Sant, produced by Ron Howard, Bryce Dallas Howard and Bryan Grazer and set to be released by Columbia Pictures.
The teen drama/love story stars Mia Wasikowska (who stars in the dreadful “Alice In Wonderland” hitting theaters today, which Elfman also scored), Schulyer Fisk and Henry Hopper (yep, Dennis’ son) in what we think has the potential to be Van Sant’s most unique film ever. We described the films as falling somewhere in between “Terms Of Endearment” and “Harold & Maude” which, at least tonally, is fairly new territory for Van Sant. The film shot last fall, and its most likely in post-production right now. There’s no word on a release date, but this fall isn’t out of the question.
We’re not known to be the biggest Elfman fans around here, but his work with Van Sant in the past has been less egregious compared to other works and as long as it’s not intrusive here we’ll deal with it (though one of our writers nearly wanted to claw his ears out while watching “Alice In Wonderland”). We’ll have to wait and see how this one plays out.