EXCLUSIVE: This month marks two years since the sudden tragic death of Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson, a two-time Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner noted for his work on Sicario, The Theo…
,” recalled Villeneuve on initially identifying Johannsson. “I fell in love with Johann’s music instantly. In his work there is a solemn melancholia. For me, at its deepest core, all Johann’s music is about one profound question: why does God not answer any of our phone calls?”“He was a true collaborator and I felt quickly, as I was working with him, that the act of creativity would not suffer from the dance between our egos. He was a creative brother to me,” he continued.
“He was a very nice person. It sounds silly when you say it, but he was genuinely a decent person, and that’s a good starting point for any collaboration. He was a good person with a very strong moral compass. And he had an enormous amount of music within him. That’s one of the great tragedies of his death, there was so much more that he would’ve done, so much music that was within him that we’ll never hear. His ambition was to diversify and have more creative control.
“We hung out with him and he invited us to his concert in London, which was fantastic. After the show I asked him to meet me for breakfast the next day and I told him about my management company. He wanted to do internationally recognized movies so he wanted to be signed up.”
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