
Marc Streitenfeld photographed by Michael Lewis in his Venice CA studio for Variety Magazine on 5/11/15.
German-born, California-based composer Marc Streitenfeld (Prometheus, American Gangster) had big shoes to fill when he took on the Poltergeist remake that opens this weekend. Jerry Goldsmith’s score for the original 1982 film is now something of a classic. The new Poltergeist was enough of an angle for Variety to propose a profile of the composer, which I broke into three stories: a main story about his odyssey from Munich to L.A. and the connection with Ridley Scott that jump-started his career; a secondary story in which I interview directors about working with him; and a third story about his challenge of scoring a haunted-house tale with modern twists. He’s now writing music for the new Amazon series Hand of God starring Ron Perlman.