Klaus Badelt
{{Short description|German composer}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Klaus Badelt
| image = KBadelt.jpg
| caption = Klaus Badelt, 2007
| image_size =
| background = non_performing_personnel
| birth_name =
| alias =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|06|12|df=y}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0046004/|title=Klaus Badelt|website=IMDb|access-date=13 February 2022}}
| birth_place = Frankfurt, West Germany
| death_date =
| death_place =
| origin = Frankfurt, West Germany
| genre = Film score
| occupation = Composer, producer, Arranger
| instrument =
| years_active = 1990s-present
| label =
| associated_acts = Hans Zimmer, Ian Honeyman, Christopher Carmichael, Andrew Reiher
| website = {{URL|http://klausbadelt.com/}}
}}
Klaus Badelt (born 12 June 1967) is a German composer, producer, and arranger of film scores. He is known for his collaborations with Hans Zimmer, helping to write scores for dozens of critically acclaimed films including The Thin Red Line, The Prince of Egypt, and Gladiator. Independently, he is known for his work on Hollywood blockbuster films such as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Equilibrium, Catwoman, K-19: The Widowmaker, Basic, and TMNT, and for his work in French and Chinese cinema as well as a number of films by Werner Herzog.
Life and career
Badelt was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He started his musical career composing for movies and commercials in his homeland. In 1998, Oscar-winning film composer Hans Zimmer invited Badelt to work at Media Ventures in Santa Monica, California, his studio co-owned by Jay Rifkin. Since then, Badelt has been working on a number of his own film and television projects such as The Time Machine and K-19: The Widowmaker. He also collaborated with other Media Ventures composers, such as Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell, and Zimmer; and mentored several others like Ramin Djawadi and Daniel Rojas.
While collaborating with Zimmer, Badelt contributed to the Oscar-nominated scores for The Thin Red Line and The Prince of Egypt, and wrote music for many well known directors and producers including Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Terrence Malick, John Woo, Kathryn Bigelow, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Werner Herzog, Sean Penn, Gore Verbinski, Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg.
Badelt co-wrote and co-produced the score to Hollywood box office hit Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, along with Zimmer and singer/composer Lisa Gerrard. Having contributed music to Gladiator, Mission: Impossible 2 and Michael Kamen's score for X-Men, Badelt was involved in the three most successful movies in 2000. Badelt also collaborated with Zimmer on other successful films, such as The Pledge, and 2001 blockbusters Hannibal and Pearl Harbor. One of his more famous and popular scores was for the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.{{Cite web|url=https://hans-zimmer.com/fr/newsite.php?rub=detail&id=522|title=Hans-Zimmer.com|website=hans-zimmer.com}}
In 2004, Badelt founded his own film music company, Theme Park Studios, in Santa Monica. Since then, he has scored films such as Constantine, Poseidon, Rescue Dawn, Premonition, and TMNT.
Among Badelt's most critically celebrated scores are the Chinese fantasy film The Promise{{cite web|url=http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/promise.html |title=The Promise (Klaus Badelt) |publisher=Filmtracks |date=2006-05-16 |access-date=2011-12-05}}[http://www.moviemusicuk.us/promisekbcd.htm THE PROMISE- KLAUS BADELT] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080102225702/http://www.moviemusicuk.us/promisekbcd.htm|date=January 2, 2008}}{{cite web|author=Other reviews by Mike Brennan |url=http://www.soundtrack.net/albums/database/?id=3972 |title=The Promise (2006) Soundtrack Album |publisher=Soundtrack.Net |date=2006-02-08 |access-date=2011-12-05}} and DreamWorks' remake of The Time Machine, the latter of which earned him the Discovery of the Year Award at the World Soundtrack Awards 2003. He also wrote the music for the closing ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, and was commissioned to write an opera about China's First Emperor, to be premiered in 2015.{{update inline|date=May 2014}}
Badelt worked on the soundtrack for The Promise for almost 6 months. The song which can be heard in the movie's end credits is an ancient folk song in China, and very few people can still sing it. For that, Badelt traveled almost two weeks in China to find someone who was able to sing the whole folk song in order to rearrange it for the score.
Badelt founded the digital film distribution startup Filmhub to create a platform for content creators to list their titles and get deals with global streaming services. Under the leadership of Badelt and CEO Alan d'Escragnolle, Filmhub now enables thousands of filmmakers to directly distribute to more than 100 streaming channels such as IMDb TV, Tubi, Amazon Prime Video, and Plex. In 2021, Filmhub was recognized by Variety {{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/film-news-may-10-1234969953/|title=Producers Guild Announces 'PGA Create' Immersive Lab for Underrepresented Producers — Film News in Brief|date=11 May 2021}} as "a dynamic disruptor in the distribution space."
Filmography
=Film=
== As score composer ==
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title !Director ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1998
|Til Schweiger |Composed with Henning Lohner |
| rowspan="3" |2001
| rowspan="2" |Composed with Hans Zimmer |
| The Pledge |
| Extreme Days
|Eric Hannah |Composed with TobyMac |
| rowspan="4" |2002 |
| K-19: The Widowmaker
| |
| Teknolust
|Composed with Ramin Djawadi |
| Equilibrium
| |
| rowspan="6" | 2003
| |
| Ned Kelly
|Composed with Bernard Fanning |
| Basic
| |
| The In-Laws
|Composed with James S. Levine |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
|Replaced Alan Silvestri ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Film |
| Beat the Drum
|David Hickson |Composed with Ramin Djawadi |
| 2004
|Replaced Graeme Revell Nominated- Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Most Intrusive Musical Score |
| rowspan="2" |2005
|Composed with Brian Tyler ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Film |
| The Promise
| |
| rowspan="4" | 2006
| |
| Ultraviolet
| |
| Poseidon
| |
| Rescue Dawn
|Composed with Ernst Reijseger |
| rowspan="4" |2007
| |
| Redline
|Composed with Ian Honeyman & Andrew Raiher |
| TMNT
|Replaced Marco Beltrami |
| Skid Row
|Ross Clarke |Documentary film |
| rowspan="5" |2008
|Guillaume Ivernel | |
| Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
|Themes by Basil Poledouris |
| The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior
| |
| Anything for Her
| |
| Killshot
| |
| rowspan="2" |2009
| |
| Little Nicholas
| |
| rowspan="10" |2010
| |
| The Extra Man
|Shari Springer Berman | |
| 22 Bullets
| |
| Among Wolves
|Composed with Andrew Raiher |
| Shanghai
| |
| Point Blank
| |
| Small World
|Bruno Chiche |Composed with Jean-Michel Bernard |
| align="left" |Waking Madison
| |
| Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
| |
| Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
|Dmitry Vasyukov |Documentary film |
| rowspan="7" |2011
|Antoine Charreyron | |
| The Floating Shadow
|Jia Dongshuo | |
| Jock the Hero Dog
|Duncan MacNeillie |Composed with Ian Honeyman |
| Seven Days in Utopia
|Matt Russell |Composed with Christopher Carmichael |
| Rebellion
| |
| The Oranges
|Composed with Andrew Raiher |
| War of the Buttons
| |
| rowspan="4" |2012
|30° couleur |Lucien Jean-Baptiste | |
| Shanghai Calling
|Composed with Christopher Carmichael |
| Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia
| |
| A Perfect Plan
| |
| rowspan="3" |2014
| |
| The Identical
|Dustin Marcellino |Composed with Christopher Carmichael |
| Le Père Noël
|Alexandre Coffre | |
| 2015
| |
| rowspan="2" |2016
| |
| The Warriors Gate
| |
| rowspan="2" |2017
|Éric Summer | |
| Legend of the Demon Cat
|Composed with Misha Segal |
== As composer of additional music ==
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title !Director !Composer ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="2" |1998
|Brenda Chapman | |
| The Thin Red Line
| |
| rowspan="2" |1999
| |
| The Devil and Ms. D
| |
| rowspan="6" |2000
| |
| The Road to El Dorado
|Bibo Bergeron | |
| Gladiator
| |
| Mission: Impossible 2
| |
| X-Men
| |
| King of the Jungle
| |
| rowspan="2" |2001
| rowspan="2" |Hans Zimmer | |
| Pearl Harbor
| |
| 2004
| |
| 2006
| |
| 2009
|Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book | |
| 2015
|Sven Unterwaldt, Jr. |Leland Cox | |
| 2017
|Lilly's Bewitched Christmas |Wolfgang Groos |Anne-Kathrin Dern | |
= Television =
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1994-95
|10 episodes |
| 1997-98
|16 episodes |
| 2000
|Theme music; |
| 2004 |
| 2007
|Episode: "Kyle + Rosemary" |
| 2008
|{{Ill|The Charlemagne Code|de|Die Jagd nach dem Schatz der Nibelungen}} | rowspan="2" |Television film |
| rowspan="3" |2010
|{{ill|Spear of Destiny (film)|de|Die Jagd nach der Heiligen Lanze|lt=Spear of Destiny}} |
| Ein Haus voller Töchter
|35 episodes |
| Tatort Internet
|10 episodes |
| 2011
|Marco W. - 247 Tage im türkischen Gefängnis |
| 2013-14
| 26 episodes |
| 2014 |
| 2018
|BaseBoys |2 episodes |
= Other =
= Video Games =
- MotorStorm: Apocalypse (video game)
- Lords Mobile (video game)
Awards
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{Commons category|Klaus Badelt}}
- {{Official website|http://klausbadelt.com/}}
- {{IMDb name|46004}}
- {{AllMusic|class=artist|q105145}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110622184949/http://www.stumpedmagazine.com/interviews/klaus-badelt.html Interview with Stumped Magazine]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080209033501/http://www.hans-zimmer.com/fr/mv/rcprod.php?numid=2 Remote Control Fan Site]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090131075532/http://scorenotes.com/interviews.html ScoreNotes Interview]
{{WSA for Discovery of the Year}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Badelt, Klaus}}
Category:20th-century German composers
Category:20th-century German male musicians
Category:21st-century German composers
Category:21st-century German male musicians
Category:DreamWorks Animation people
Category:German film score composers
Category:German male film score composers
Category:German television composers
Category:Male television composers
Category:German video game composers