Hooper on Potter

Mikael Carlsson has passed along confirmation from the studio that Nick Hooper will indeed be scoring the next Harry Potter.

Pardon my snark, but the dismissive attitude that people had about news of this assignment (which should not have come as a shock) really bugged the crap out of me. "Oh, the studio will never agree…" "I'm sure his score will be thrown out…" Is it so hard for people to understand that maybe, just maybe, someone doesn't want to work with John Williams when they have their own composer? And that (gasp!) the studio might agree? What is the world coming to when we'll be forced to listen to and discuss more than the same five composers???

Sorry - I love it when the little guy gets a chance and it confounds the know-it-alls.