Jay 37,336 Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Quote Michael Giacchino (Up, Star Trek, Lost, Jurassic World, The Incredibles, Ratatouille) is teaming up with Nami Melumad (Absentia) to score the upcoming comedy An American Pickle. The film marks the feature solo directorial debut of cinematographer Brandon Trost and stars Seth Rogen, Maya Erskine and Sarah Snook. The movie revolves around an immigrant worker at a pickle factory who is accidentally preserved for a century and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. Simon Rich (Man Seeking Woman, Miracle Workers) wrote the screenplay. Rogen is also producing the Point Grey production with Evan Goldberg (This Is the End, The Interview) and James Weaver (Neighbors, The Disaster Artist). Giacchino has previously scored the 2011 feature 50/50 for the producers. An American Pickle is expected to be released in 2020 by Sony Pictures. Giacchino’s upcoming projects also include Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit, which will premiere next month at the Toronto Film Festival before being released on October 18 by Fox Searchlight. Melumad continues to score Amazon’s Stana Katie-starring series Absentia, which will return for its third season in 2020. https://filmmusicreporter.com/2019/08/16/michael-giacchino-nami-melumad-to-score-brandon-trosts-an-american-pickle/ Arpy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Wrong thread? MikeH 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 Somewhere out there, beneath the pickle moonlight... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 I'm Pickle Rick! (LOL!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,336 Posted May 21, 2020 Author Share Posted May 21, 2020 The film is skipping a theatrical release and will debut August 6 on HBO Max https://deadline.com/2020/05/an-american-pickle-movie-release-date-seth-rogen-hbo-max-1202933382/ No word on a score album yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,336 Posted August 6, 2020 Author Share Posted August 6, 2020 This film is now out on HBO Max. It looks really weird Here's the OST tracklist 1. Workin’ For Love in All the Wrong Places 2. New World Problems 3. A Greenbaum Family Reunion 4. Seltzer Your Soul 5. The Lonely Herschel Club 6. Klezmer Fight Club 7. Who Gives a Boop Bop 8. When the Greenbaum Breaks 9. Pickle Your Fancy 10. Revenge of the Ben 11. The Pickle Empire Strikes Back 12. The Fall and Rise of Herschel’s Twitter 13. The Herschel You Give 14. Yes You Canada 15. The Greenbaum Switcheroo 16. Schlepping to Schlupsk 17. Joining the Kaddish 18. Denouement to Be 19. The Silver Brining 20. Pickles, Suite or Sour The release date for the OST is Friday August 7th, so it's already available in countries where it is already Friday, IE: https://music.apple.com/nz/album/an-american-pickle-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/1526555368 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,336 Posted August 7, 2020 Author Share Posted August 7, 2020 Available digitally in the US now https://open.spotify.com/album/7yqvm8pusaKK53SGY50Z6c?si=QoMLbkEjQl2QF7-SMwrUzQhttps://music.apple.com/us/album/an-american-pickle-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/1526555368https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Michael_Giacchino_An_American_Pickle_Original_Moti?id=B7d2ug5c4qydppykgkypybvkqqehttps://smile.amazon.com/American-Pickle-Original-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B08FBL56F4/https://www.hdtracks.com/#/album/5f2bab48e611581991ed9523 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 My parents watched the film yesterday and although I was unable to watch it with them, I could hear snippets of the score. Some nice orchestral colors from what I heard, not as quiet and paired-down as Jojo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,336 Posted August 7, 2020 Author Share Posted August 7, 2020 We'll probably watch it this weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUlyssesian 2,475 Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Why did there need to be a collaboration? Why didn't Gia write on his own? Or did they write separate cues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,336 Posted August 7, 2020 Author Share Posted August 7, 2020 It says right on the cover: Giacchino wrote the themes, Melumads wrote the score that integrates them Surely Gia wrote the themes and got attached to the project as favor to James Weaver, producer of this film and 50/50, while helping out a young up and coming composer, getting many people to buy/stream the album who otherwise wouldn't have if Gia's name wasn't attached Gia seems to be sliding more and more into this role, since's he's also just providing the themes for Extinct as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yavar Moradi 2,593 Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 He did this on multiple video game scores many years ago like Black and Mercenaries (the bulk of which were scored by Chris Tilton). Yavar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,336 Posted August 7, 2020 Author Share Posted August 7, 2020 Just got done listening to the album on Spotify Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it's not bad, but it's not very memorable, one of those in one ear and out the other scores. Not very Giacchino-y, either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUlyssesian 2,475 Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 3 hours ago, Jay said: It says right on the cover: Giacchino wrote the themes, Melumads wrote the score that integrates them Surely Gia wrote the themes and got attached to the project as favor to James Weaver, producer of this film and 50/50, while helping out a young up and coming composer, getting many people to buy/stream the album who otherwise wouldn't have if Gia's name wasn't attached Gia seems to be sliding more and more into this role, since's he's also just providing the themes for Extinct as well. Lol thanks I clearly didn't read the cover titles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,051 Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Too bad Gia isn't particularly good at crafting new themes, then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TheUlyssesian 2,475 Posted August 8, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 8, 2020 3 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said: Too bad Gia isn't particularly good at crafting new themes, then. He doesn't always deliver but I might put him in Top 5 best theme writer we have in Hollywood today - with Williams and JNH and I might throw in Desplat and Elfman in there too. TSMefford, Bayesian, Edmilson and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,336 Posted August 8, 2020 Author Share Posted August 8, 2020 He's written a ton of amazing themes, the ones in this score didn't do much for me though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,336 Posted September 16, 2020 Author Share Posted September 16, 2020 I forgot to post here that we watched the film and the score was very nice in it. I have yet to return to the album again now having seen it though Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 153 Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 Is there a chance that this will be released on cd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,336 Posted September 20, 2020 Author Share Posted September 20, 2020 Who knows. Most scores of the 2020s will never be on CD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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