Music, in movies.
I’ve been talking to my potential music supervisor. Apparently, if I want to use a Led Zeppelin song (any song) I will need to dish out up to $800,000 per song. Right. Like I’m going to do that. Depending on how interested they are in the project, they could maybe go for less than 600K, but in any case, it won’t be less than that. I wonder how much those car commercials paid for them. It must’ve been a freaking fortune. Does anybody know? I can only imagine.
On the good side though, with our movie being set in the 80’s and all, we could access a Don Henley or similar 80’s pop stalwart song for around 75k. That’s very doable. Maybe even less. There are SO many 80’s songs that everybody knows that are one hit wonders as well. I prefer to focus on 3 or 4 songs like that, than 1 single Led Zep song. It’s in the script (the Led Zep song), but we will definitely change that. The catch of course is to have a good supervisor that can get you a good deal with the artists or license companies directly, OR, to have access to the artists themselves (we have access to some) to sell them on the script. That would be wonderful.
All part of the process.
