After starting out as just a rumor, it has been confirmed that Alexandre Desplat (Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Fantastic Mr. Fox) will score the first of the two films based on the final Harry Potter book. I am definitely skeptical of this. You will notice that I did not mention his most recent musical score to date (Twilight: New Moon). Nonetheless I believe that he should do a great job. If not for his hauntingly beautiful score for Benjamin Button, or for his fantastically old fashioned score for Mr. Fox, then because the score for New Moon was probably the best thing about the film.
Desplat knows how to right fantasy scores, and he knows what melodies suit which films. Nobody could've made New Moon good. That's just a fact. Still Desplat did an outstanding job of orchestrating a believable love story musically at the very least. He knows should know how much the Harry Potter Franchise means to people, so if he screws up then he really does deserve hell. But if he perfectly matches the tone of the film like he has with past films, then this could in every way be the best film yet.
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