Edward Shearmur is like David Newman, Christopher Lennertz and Cliff Eidelman. All are enormously talented composers who get a decent amount of work--but unfortunately, it is often for lightweight and silly comedies that do not allow them to show off their chops. Shearmur started as an assistant to Michael Kamen, and also arranged and played for artists such as Annie Lennox, Bryan Adams, Pink Floyd, and Eric Clapton. As mentioned, many of his scores are for films such as the Charlie's Angels films, Miss Congeniality, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, Laws of Attraction, Wimbledon, Epic Movie, College Road Trip, Furry Vengeance, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules. But he has also written effective varied music for Wings of a Dove, Cruel Intentions, K-Pax, The Count of Monte Cristo, Reign of Fire, Skeleton Key, and Abduction. He also wrote a rejected score to The Other Boleyn Girl and wrote additional music for The Wolfman (director Joe Johnston decided to retain Danny Elfman's score after the producers rejected it, but Elfman was unavailable to write music for the new edits). Johnny English allowed Shearmur to write a stylish, ballsy, jazzy score to accompany the main character's ignoble feats. His score for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow contains adventurous fanfares and action music that hearkens back to John Williams's classics. Hopefully he will get the chance to write more scores on this vein.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
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