'Blackhat' Composer Harry Gregson-Williams Says Michael Mann Scrapped Most Of His Score

"He doesn’t like too many twists and turns in the music’s structure. He really responds to things that evolve very, very slowly. He wants music that the images, the edits, the dialogue can float above without it corresponding too much," "Heat" and "Public Enemies" composer Elliot Goldenthal told The Wall Street Journal in 2002 about working with Michael Mann. "With Michael, you have to be prepared to make a lot of changes. He changes his mind. He watches the movie everyday in total and makes adjustments so you have to know the job is making adjustments along the way as well." In other words, Mann is just as exacting on the score as he is on every other part of the process in making a movie, but for his latest film "Blackhat," that attitude has left at least one collaborator miffed.

Composer Harry Gregson-Williams ("The Equalizer," "The Town") took to Facebook yesterday and shared his experience about working...