All these years later, John continues to be an inspiration.” He continued, “As with all the film scores I compose, my goal is to reflect and serve the story and emotions of the film. In a sense, John Williams was my very first music teacher. Rogue One is also the first Star Wars feature to not have a soundtrack created by legendary composer John Williams. On February 14th, 2022, Mondo released a four-LP expanded edition soundtrack, scored by Academy Award-winning composer Michael Giacchino. Rogue One represents a departure from the past Star Wars films in many ways. Back in 1977, long before I knew I was going to be a film composer, I spent countless hours listening to the original ‘Star Wars’ double LP on my small RCA Stereo in my bedroom. Star Wars music fans have a new way to listen to the music of 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The first Star Wars standalone film, this Decembers Rogue One, will be getting a new soundtrack, just months before release. Michael Giacchino said, “It has been a great honor to have been asked to score ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ and I am humbled to have had the opportunity to contribute to the musical universe that inspired me so as a kid. He'll also be writing the music for next year's Spider-Man: Homecoming.Acclaimed composer Michael Giacchino marks his first-ever feature collaboration with Lucasfilm for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” Recorded at Sony Scoring Stage, the score features a 110-piece orchestra and 80-person choir conducted by Tim Simonec. The music of Michael Giacchino, who won an Oscar a few years ago for Up, can be still be heard in Doctor Strange, which has been presumably been moved to the smaller theaters now that Rogue One is here. The composer just won his first Oscar for Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, although he was.
I think he just knocked it out of the park. Academy Award-winning composer Alexandre Desplat will compose the score for Star Wars Rogue One. There's particular moments in the film, musically, especially toward the end, that are truly stunning and very emotional. So we'd joke "You didn't have to do that for us" and he'd be like "No, this has been up for like thirteen years." He said he listened to the Empire Strikes Back soundtrack to death as a kid and I think the vocabulary of that music is in him. I think a lot of us compete for who's the biggest Star Wars fan working on the film and you go around his house and walk in the door and in his main front room is a 13-foot framed poster of A New Hope. He's a massive, massive, massive, massive Star Wars fan. When the score does bring in a familiar theme, it feels like a welcome guest appearance rather than a crutch.Īlthough Giacchino wasn't present at the Rogue One press conference a few weeks ago, director Gareth Edwards did speak about his work and his love of Williams' iconic work (especially The Empire Strikes Back): Michael did an amazing score for us. I liked Solo’s as well but for me it is not in the same league as any other Star Wars film’s score. THR notes that this isnt to do with any artistic squabbling, but. It diverges as often as it quotes, capturing John Williams' unique blend of beauty, triumph, and menace while also doing its own thing. Rogue one’s music is beautiful It is nicely distinguishable from the main music and really highlights some of the great scenes especially ‘your father would be proud’. According to The Hollywood Reporter, original pick Alexandre Desplat has been dropped, and Pixar-composer Michael Giacchino is in. Like the rest of Rogue One, it's deeply in love with the original Star Wars trilogy but isn't too precious about breaking from the usual formula.
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And if Star Wars does matter to you, I recommend checking it out as soon as possible – there are surprises and turns and moments in this movie that you don't want spoiled.īut if you have seen the film, or if you don't consider movie soundtracks to be a spoiler, composer Michael Giacchino's complete soundtrack is now streaming online.Īlthough he was a last-minute replacement for Alexandre Desplat, Giacchino's work in the film certainly doesn't feel like it was rushed in any way. We'll have more to talk about in the days ahead after everyone has had the chance to check it out. I was one of you and I liked it quite a bit.
It's Friday morning, which means that a lot of you went and saw Rogue One: A Star Wars Story last night.