Drive-Inspired Sketches by Chromatics, Desire Include Track Listings of Unused Film Score

The musical partnership between director Nicolas Winding Refn and electronic musician Johnny Jewel dates back to Refn’s Bronson, which used a track from Jewel’s group Glass Candy to strike its stylized period feel. For Refn’s latest film, the L.A.-set crime thriller Drive, he turned once more to Jewel to help create an ’80s-tinged pop synth sound — and the inspiration seemed to go both ways, as evidenced by drawings and a full collection of Drive-inspired tracks created by Jewel and his musical collaborators. Two of Jewel’s groups, Chromatics and Desire, have tracks featured on the soundtrack to Drive (“Tick of the Clock” and “Under Your Spell,” respectively). But the score to Drive is largely comprised of compositions by composer Cliff Martinez, built around a handful of mostly electronic tracks that also include Kavinsky’s “Night Call” and College ft. Electric Youth’s “A Real Hero.” “Johnny had scored two specific scenes — one was ‘Tick of the Clock’ which was in the beginning from Chromatics and then there was ‘Under Your Spell’ later on,” Refn told Movieline via telephone earlier today. “Then I had the College song and the Kavinsky song, and I had Cliff Martinez kind of emulate the feel of those sounds and those songs into a score.” Jewel, meanwhile, wound up composing his own Drive-inspired tracks at Refn’s encouragement. These unused score tracks appear to have surfaced as part of a 30-drawing collection of sketches by Chromatics and Desire inspired by scenes from the film; on the blog Primitive Desire, Jewel’s Desire collaborator Megan Louise notes that the songs listed “will be coming out on Johnny Jewel & Nat Walker’s soundtrack project ‘Symmetry’ in the fall.” Full two-part track listing follows, but beware spoilers! 1. Isolation (3:10) Winner Take All (2:42) Death Mask (1:22) Love Theme/Air (2:01) Magic Gardens (1:40) The Family (1:33) Rearview Mirror Pt 1 (0:37) Rearview Mirror Pt 2 (1:04) Irene’s Eyes (3:01) Lady (2:56) The Midnight Sun (1:37) City of Dreams (2:42) Beyond the Rim (2:18) Love Bite (3:40) Driver’s Theme (4:02) Baby (2:35) Bernie’s Theme (1:40) The Nightshift (1:00) Nino’s Death (1:41) Love Theme/Earth (3:27) Fading Away (2:44) Memories Are Forever (1:50) 2. Flashback (2:57) Paradise Lost (0:28) Car Jack (2:50) Behind the Wheel (7:28) End Game (2:21) Murder Motel (4:29) The Crimson Torch (2:43) Fragments (0:43) Strangers (4:03) Music Box (0:43) Paper Chase (3:00) Mr. Midnight (3:28) Shannon’s Death (1:11) Blood Sport (2:26) The Nightshift/Reprise (0:58) Outside Looking In (2:21) Symphony of Light (3:15) All the Faces (2:46) Love Theme/Water (4:14) Echoes of the Mind (6:29) The rest of the drawings are taken from stills from the film, depicting various scenes of Driver (Ryan Gosling), the neighbor he falls for (Carey Mulligan), and the various forces he comes to contend with as he crosses paths with seedy crime bosses and thugs in L.A. They’ve got a charming Etch-a-Sketch quality to them, but what’s most striking is how vividly they capture scenes from the film in spare black and white renderings. Click here to see all 30 of the Drive-inspired sketches, but again, potential spoilers abound, so view with caution. [Primitive Desire]

Josh Duhamel Gets Animated With Role On Disney Jr.'s 'Jake & The Never Land Pirates'

EXCLUSIVE: This is news that parents with little ones would appreciate -- Transformers co-star Josh Duhamel has joined the cast of Disney Jr.'s flagship series, cartoon Jake and the Never Land Pirates. He will voice the recurring role of Captain Flynn, a dashing young pirate who is well-known for his legendary adventures on the Never Sea. Flynn and his boat, The Barracuda, are plucked from the sea in a giant windstorm and shipwrecked in the Never Land Desert, where Jake and his crew find him. Jake and the Never Land Pirates, which is is cable's No.1 series among Boys 2-5 and is on track to be Disney Channel's No.1 preschool series ever, will return for a second season in early 2012. Its voice cast includes David Arquette.

Bawdy 'Brother' woos African auds

A Zimbabwean along with a Nigerian were the those who win of 'Big Brother Africa' this season, inside a season where the show, as significant for debate as rankings, increased its South African base to incorporate participants from 14 nations.On the region where strife and division tend to be more common than togetherness, "Your Government Africa," while remaining questionable, has struck a chord with audiences wishing to maneuver beyond edges. The sixth season, which wrapped This summer 31, was groundbreaking in the expansion outdoors its Nigeria base, to incorporate participants from 14 nations. The participants themselves were youthful, urban and cosmopolitan. They'd been educated abroad, had mobile phones and designer jeans, and were as acquainted with present day globalized youth culture because they were using the movies and music being made in their own individual yards.Secluded inside a lavish house in a single of Johannesburg's poshest and surrounding suburbs, the housemates bickered, bawled and bared all within the show's well known "shower hour" weight loss than 24 cameras shot their every move. Two those who win each walked away using the $200,000 grand prize.Airing in additional than 40 nations via South African web M-Internet, which produces the show with reality giant Endemol, the antics from the housemates elevated various cultural questions.Some have billed the participants were less an expression of the unique nations and cultures than from the homogeneous, Westernized realm of Africa's elite -- they don't reflect the normal face of African youth today. One Ugandan media critic referred to the show as "the veneration of awesome (and) the elevation of classy."M-Internet Africa controlling director Biola Alabi states housemates are selected, because they are in "Large Brother's" various incarnations all over the world, "for his or her entertainment value and capability to build relationships the format."When sparks fly, it typically has less related to contrasting cultures than competing egos.The show's sexually billed atmosphere has triggered public outcry from the earliest models, with experts worrying the series went from the conservative mores typical over the region.Within the show's second season, a drunken encounter between two participants sparked debate over set up female contestant have been sexually attacked. (Both M-Internet and also the lady refused any wrongdoing had occurred.)A hug between two female participants captivated debates on discussion boards over the region within the touchy problem of homosexuality. Married housemates' onscreen matters have forced the problem of infidelity in to the open.While M-Internet continues to be pleased to reap the rankings rewards of these controversies, it's bowed to public pressure to tone things lower on several occasion.Whenever a Ugandan contestant smacked a lady housemate last season, invoking annoyed reactions from women's privileges groups, the network kicked the assailant in the house.And after complaints that a few of the steamy onscreen moments went too much, the internet made lemonade from lemon -- intoducing another, unfiltered funnel available simply to customers -- and making the greater risque elements on pay-per-view. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Havens chosen TCA leader

Chocolate Havens continues to be chosen leader from the Television Experts Assn. Havens has covered TV for 23 years -- 17 years with Tribune Media and also the past six years with FYI Television since it's controlling editor. She replaces Susan Youthful, who's an independent author and former TV writer and critic for that Concord Tribune. A resident of Fort Worth, Texas, and person in TCA since 1997, Havens assists 2 yrs as prexy. She was most lately Vice president from the org. Others chosen towards the TCA board are Salt Lake Tribune author Scott Pierce as Vice president, TV Guide Canada's Amber Dowling as secretary and John Gianelli of XFinity TV as treasurer. The present TCA tour is happening in the BevHilton, using the annual TCA Honours looking for Saturday evening. Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.levine@variety.com

James Franco was considered for Breaking Dawn

Director Bill Condon has confirmed that internet gossip suggesting James Franco wanted a role in Twilight: Breaking Dawn is true."He told a friend of mine, who then sent the message along to me. And for a moment it was like, okay, what could James Franco play that wouldn't feel like Where's Waldo?" he told MTV.Sadly for Franco's fans, no obvious role existed. "I really thought about it for a second, and nothing made sense," Condon added."If it had made sense, and frankly if I had called and said 'Do you want to play that vampire from that country,' it would have involved hanging around for two months in a scene with 80 people. And I don't know if he really would have wanted to do it."However, the director claims there's no, ahem, bad blood between him and the 127 Hours star."I think he thinks this somehow involves some big rejection of the idea. It wasn't that."