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A con man love story by the people who made Brick.
We shot the movie in Serbia, Montenegro, Romania and Prague. It stars Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, Mark Ruffalo, Rinko Kikuchi, Robbie Coltrane, Maximillian Schell, a one-legged cat and one drunk camel. In theaters May 15th in New York and LA, and May 29th everywhere.
This blog is written and maintained by the writer/director, aka Rian Johnson, aka me, and all opinions expressed herein are mine and not the studio or distributor's. You can learn more, make friends and maybe even win a pony at my forum.
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The Brothers Bloom. Limited Edition Cast Soundtracks. After scoring Bloom, Nathan made each of the cast a unique soundtrack of their specific cues. This is the cover of Bang Bang’s (Rinko Kikuchi).This is quite possibly the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Music Monday - Bloom Intro (Rough Electric Version)
You know, for someone who spends most of their time making music, I realized I don’t post a lot of it on Tumblr. So I’m gonna start throwing a little something up on Mondays. Maybe some behind-the-scenes stuff, early sketches, or something from a band that I’m producing and think you should know about.
I’ll start with an early track I just found from the Bloom score. This comes from the Overture, before it was filled out (You can hear the final “Brothers In A One Hat Town” piece here).
The way I did this project involved much more of a “building” process than a traditional score where you write it, record it and release it. I recorded hundreds of different tracks with the key instrumentalists and then began building and editing. As things came together, I would send ideas to Rian and we would talk about the direction before adding new elements.
Often, I would get takes of a few different instruments playing the lead melody lines so I had options for different versions as the entire track developed. In this rough track, you get to hear Jonny Rodgers’ great electric guitar work in a much more stripped down way.
"I honestly feel that I can review stupid Rian’s stupid movie on stupid awesome Blu-ray with no conflict of interest whatsoever."
— William Goss takes a gander at the Bloom Blu-ray over at Cinematical.
Here’s a little extra that we couldn’t put on the DVD.
This is a very crude animatic of the opening childhood sequence from The Brothers Bloom (COUGH now available for rental on DVD and BluRay COUGH) that I created early in the pre-production process. As will be immediately and humiliatingly evident, I did all the voices myself. The artwork consists of storyboards by the very talented Daniele Auber, and it was all put together on my laptop in Final Cut Pro.
Minimal resources, very slapdash, but it ended up being an invaluable tool in showing both business and creative folks we were courting how the whole thing would come together.
Make Way, Make Room!
The Brothers Bloom is available right now for rental only in the US. It’s on both Blu-ray and DVD, and it has a ton of great features, including a brand new commentary track, a Behind the Scenes I cut together myself, about half an hour of deleted scenes, storyboard comparisons, artwork galleries, and a special easter egg for those who enjoy a good egg hunt.
So - the big question I’ve been getting is why you cannot buy this disc yet. I don’t have a terrific answer, except that this is the way it’s being released, and it’s a release model that (like it or not) we’re going to see more of in the future. Basically, giving rental outlets an exclusive window gets more support from them, which means more discs on shelves, more promotion, etc.
The semi-good news is that the disc will be available for purchase on January 9th. A few Halloween parties, a little turkey, some holiday shopping, and WHAM-O, it’ll be here before you know it. Till then, you can find Bloom at Blockbuster, on Netflix, on iTunes, and just about any other rental outlet. Thanks, and let me know what you think!
(Stephen’s) Marmalade Sour, The Brothers Bloom Soundtrack Party. New Haven, CT.
(photo by pennybird)
3 oz. Cachaça
1 oz. Lemon Juice
1 oz. Simple Syrup
2 dashes Fee’s Orange Bitters
1 egg white
2 T. Orange Marmalade (or peach jam)
This is my new favorite drink, based on Jamie Boudreau’s amazing Marmalade Sour. I like it with a bit more sweetness, but lets face it - Cachaça is amazing, any way you serve it. I put it on the menu for the Brothers Bloom cocktail party and it seemed to be the perfect drink to represent Stephen. A bit sweet, a bit smoky, a bit of boisterous fun.
I finally saw The Brothers Bloom made by the same guy who did Brick. I’ll own this movie when I can and may even catch it again at the cheap theatre (Regency Fairfax) before it’s gone.
Rian Johnson sits down with MakingOf to talk about his new film, The Brothers Bloom.
if you haven’t seen the film, go see it now! If you have seen the film, go see it again and download the audio commentary to listen to in the theater!
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