Horner and his orchestra were pulling all-nighters watching incomplete footage while creating the music for the film. The release date for Aliens was locked in place by the studio, filming was behind, and this left Horner with a nearly impossible deadline. This was half of the usual six-week time frame. In an extreme (though not uncommon) example of a more traditional director/composer collaboration, James Cameron, when he commissioned the late James Horner to score his 1986 blockbuster Aliens, gave the composer a compressed schedule of three weeks to compose the score. Traditionally, the composer sees a (more or less) locked version of the film and they create soundscapes inspired by the images they are seeing. This is a backwards way of working on a film or television project, where the score is usually one of the last things to be completed. One of the biggest revelations I discovered when reading Clare Nina Norelli’s 33 1/3 entry on Badalamenti’s Soundtrack from Twin Peaks is that aside from the partnership between Lynch and co-creator Mark Frost, the first creative Lynch chose to enlist in bringing Twin Peaks to life was Badalamenti. (Why don’t you give our podcast dedicated to Badalamenti a listen?) Perhaps no two deaths have had quite the impact as have the passings of Lynch’s two musical collaborators-Julee Cruise (on June 9th, 2022) and Badalamenti. Since production wrapped, the Twin Peaks family has lost several members, including Peggy Lipton, Harry Dean Stanton, Walter Olkewicz, Lenny Von Dohlen, and very recently, Al Strobel. Davis a few years after that, and then when Lynch and co filmed the third season of Twin Peaks a good chunk of the narrative and fan speculation centered on how long dead actors would reprise crucial roles or how actors who passed during production-Miguel Ferrer, Warren Frost and especially Catherine Coulson would be incorporated into the new storylines.
Long ago, Frank Silva and Jack Nance were lost, Don S. David Lynch, Badalamenti’s most famous collaborator, succinctly expressed the sentiments of the Twin Peaks fandom when he said solemnly, “No music today.”Ĭreating a podcast and website celebrating a television program whose peak (if you’ll pardon the pun) in popularity was over 30 years ago means you have resigned yourself to some losses. The composer who became justifiably famous for creating perhaps the single most iconic television theme of all time passed at 85, in a way I think everyone would want to go-of natural causes, at home, surrounded by family. NOTE: The following article contains SPOILERS for the entirety of Twin PeaksĪngelo Badalamenti died on December 11, 2022.
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