Chromatics man talks films projects, soundtracks and Ryan Gosling's directorial debut

Chromatics’ Johnny Jewel has revealed the reasons behind the delay the After Dark 2 compilation and talked working with Ryan Gosling on his directorial debut.

In an new interview with Noisey, the Italians Do It Better man talks about the Logan’s Run remake set for a 2014 release and working on the film’s soundtrack. “I’ve been working on it for about three years, but that one is still in pre-production. It might not even happen,” he explains. “Ryan left the film, and Nic [Winding Refn, director of Drive] isn’t sure what he’s doing. I have a pile of stuff for Logan’s Run that is awesome, but it’s a work in progress, and it’s very different from anything else that I’ve ever done, so it’s really easy to know which things are for that.”

Jewel originally worked with Winding Refn on a score for Drive which was initially rejected and eventually released as Symmetry’s Themes for an Imaginary Film. He’s also pairing up with Gosling for the actor’s directorial and screenwriting debut, How To Catch A Monster.“It’s more doo-wop, disintegrated rockabilly mixed in with industrial sounds,” he says of the soundtrack. “So we’ve been listening to a lot of Alan Vega and the Shangri-La’s. It’s a really bizarre, fantasy-type story, in the vein of Goonies meets Twin Peaks.”

A score for a TV pilot with Chloe Sevigny is also in the works, alongside the music for an indie film Beautiful Now, concerning ”the last five minutes of a woman’s life before she blows her brains out” and a movie called Pimp, staring Mary J. Blige, Dakota Fanning, and possibly Rihanna.

[via Noisey]