Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood to Score 'Norwegian Wood' film

Posted on Mar 8th 2010 9:30AM by Chris Mugan
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Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood is to score an adaptation of Haruki Murakami's novel 'Norwegian Wood.'

Greenwood's score is to be based on a composition he wrote for the BBC Concert Orchestra. 'Doghouse' debuted last month at the corporation's Maida Vale studios in north London, where the classically-trained musician announced the film project and explained how the orchestral piece came about.

"I wrote [the] piece mostly in hotels and dressing rooms while touring with Radiohead," Music blog TwentyFourbit quoted Greenwood. "This was more practical than glamorous -- lots of time sitting indoors, lots of instruments about -- and aside from picking up a few geographical working titles, I can't think that it had any effect where, on tour, it was written."

His last involvement in movies was a Grammy-nominated soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson's 'There Will Be Blood.' That work, too, was developed from an earlier work, 'Popcorn Superhet Receiver.' 'Doghouse' is to be broadcast on Radio 3 on Mar. 19.

Directed and scripted by Anh Hung Tran, 'Norwegian Wood' is due for release in Japan in December 2010. In Murakami's 1987 book, the 37-year-old narrator Toru Watanabe looks back at his student days, having heard a version of the Beatles' song.