Soundtrack Bits: Listen To A Track From M83’s ‘Oblivion’ Score, Michael Giacchino Reunitings With Wachowskis For ‘Jupiter Ascending’
Universal recently revealed that plans to openJoseph Kosinski’sOblivionearly in IMAX theaters has been scuttled, but other plans for the movie are going forward at full speed.Anthony Gonzalezof the electronic/dance bandM83has been recording the score for the film withJoseph Trapanese, and the first track from that effort is now online. Check it out below, and you’ll find that the feeling conveyed by the track is just as big and sweeping as you’d hope.
In addition, we’ve got news of the composerMichael Giacchinoworking again withAndy and Lana Wachowski. This time he’ll be scoring their new film,Jupiter Ascending.
Here’s the M83 track, ‘StarWaves,’ which premiered onRolling Stone. The full soundtrack, the cover to which is seen above, will be released on April 9. It features a collaboration with Norwegian singer Susanne Sundfør.
Oblivionopens on April 19 in regular and IMAX theaters.
And then there’s Giacchino’s reunion with the Wachowskis, which follows up on his work for their filmSpeed Racer. With scores for films includingLost,Star Trek,The IncrediblesandUp, Giacchino has become one of the most popular and flexible film/TV composers working today. His contribution toJupiter Ascendingwill likely end up being one of the film’s aspects audiences anticipate most.
Jupiter Ascending stars starsMila Kunis,Channing Tatum,Eddie Redmayne, andSean Bean. [The Film Music ReporterviaThe Playlist]
Update: There’s one more bit to mention, which is thatAlexandre Desplatwill scoreGeorge Clooney’s new filmMonuments Men. The film also featuresMatt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, andJohn Goodman. The movie is shooting through early summer, and has a planned December 18 release date.
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men focuses on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys – seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 – possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind’s greatest achievements.
