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Another director Giacchino-ed successfully. 

Michael Giacchino to Reteam with Taika Waititi on Next Goal Wins
 
I'm imagining this will be a smaller score like Jojo Rabbit, but I'm curious to hear what Giacchino comes up with!
 
Since this is his third collaboration with Waititi, I'm hopeful that means there's a good chance he will score Waititi's Star Wars film too. I like Rogue One (especially "Your Father Would Be Proud"), but I would love to hear a Giacchino Star Wars score that isn't rushed!

REALLY digging the action cues. Even without the movie, I get pumped af. Been waiting to hear the tail end of "In Contempt of Delacourt/Dance of the Atrociraptors" after Trevorrow shared a bit of it on his Instagram nearly 2 years ago. Da Plane and Da Cycle is a top tier Giacchino action cue. Loved every second of it.

Overall, the score doesn't hit as hard as Fallen Kingdom's, but it was nice hearing Giacchino bring back so many of his themes from the first two films. Loved hearing the Family theme again. Though so far, his score for The Batman is still his best one this year.

In just a few weeks, his Lightyear score will arrive and Thor: Love and Thunder after that! Plus he's directing Werewolf By Night! It's a good year to be a Giacchino fan.

They are releasing a single from this on Friday - "Mission Perpetual"
 
Sample:
 
https://www.disneymusiclicensing.com/album/MTk2Mzg3OS05NTFjMWQ
 

I should start by saying that on Last Fm, I have more plays on the theme than anyone else in the world and it's only been 2 days.

Obi-Wan is my favorite character in all of fiction so I've been waiting for him to get a proper theme for years. When I heard John was gonna do it, I nearly teared up. My expectations were high.

I'm the kind of girl who vibes with music rather easily, but this was something else. I first heard it from a leaked video of the live performance from Celebration. But hearing the official recording, my heart flew a thousand miles per hour after listening to it. With film music, this has only happened to me 3 times; The first two being when I heard Rey's Theme and The Adventures of Han for the first time. Everything about Obi-Wan's Theme just clicks for me and I haven't gotten tired of it at all despite the obscene amount of times I've heard it already.

I learned on Friday that John Williams said he intends to retire from film scoring after he finishes The Fabelmans and Indiana Jones. If he follows through, this theme is his official good bye to the franchise. And it's one hell of a good bye at that. My favorite piece of Star Wars TV music by far.
Fr. I don't see any problem with him writing this quickly. It's not like he's scoring the entire show. Plus he just started working on The Fabelmans and is STILL working on Indiana Jones. We're lucky he made this at all.

There's a new interview with Mick Giacchino where he talks about The Batman (among other things). In a nutshell, Mick wrote the Batmobile chase because Michael was busy with Spider-Man, and "Highway to the Anger Zone" on the soundtrack is a combination of two cues. The first cue (0:00-1:34) was written by Michael and is called "If Batmobile Street Could Talk", and the second cue (1:35-5:20) is "Highway to the Anger Zone" and was written by Mick.
 
I'll post the video below, but here's a transcript of Mick talking about the process (I cleaned it up a little):
 
 
This part starts at 24:24 of the interview:

There's a new interview with Mick Giacchino where he talks about The Batman (among other things). In a nutshell, Mick wrote the Batmobile chase because Michael was busy with Spider-Man, and "Highway to the Anger Zone" on the soundtrack is a combination of two cues. The first cue (0:00-1:34) was written by Michael and is called "If Batmobile Street Could Talk", and the second cue (1:35-5:20) is "Highway to the Anger Zone" and was written by Mick.
 
I'll post the video below, but here's a transcript of Mick talking about the process (I cleaned it up a little):
 
 
This part starts at 24:24 of the interview:

Track list
Jurassi-logos / Dinow This A Dinosaur In The Ranching Business It's Like Herding Parasaurolophus Upsy-Maisie Clonely You / The Hunters Become The Hunted The Campfire In Her Soul Hay Of The Locusts A Sattler State Of Affairs / Alan For Granted / Sattler! I Barely Know Her The Wages Of Biosyn Free-Range Kidnapping A-Biosyn' We Will Go This Dodgson Burns Bright / The Maltese Dragons You're So Cute When You Smuggle In Contempt Of Delacourt / Dance Of The Atrociraptors Da Plane And Da Cycle You're Making Me Feel Wu-zy The Geneticist's Gamble / Cicadian Rhythms Therizinosaurus Will Be Blood / Land Of The Frost A Dimetrodon A Dozen She Shoots / She Scorches Gigantosaurus On Your Life Ladder And Subtract / What's Your Major Malcolm Function / Six Degrees Of Evacuation Ramsay's The Second No More Gotta Shut Down The Blah Blah Blah Girls Can Alpha Too Saliva And Kicking Wu-ing For Redemption Battle Royale With Reprise / Six Days Seven Denouements A-O-Kayla All The Jurassic World's A Rage Larry Curly And MOE Suite / Suite Dino Revenge

Meant to do a write-up when I voted the other day:
 
The Batman: I really like Elfman's Batman theme, but I like Giacchino's score more overall, especially his themes for Catwoman and Bruce Wayne.
 
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol: GP was the clear winner for me here. I was going to list some of my favorite tracks and realized it was most of the tracks lol. (My #1 track would have to be "A Man, A Plan, A Code, Dubai".) The score has a lot of energy without being overwhelming and has a nice, easy flow to it, IMO.
 
War for the Planet of the Apes: This was a tough one because I absolutely love both of Giacchino's scores. I ultimately went with War because it reprises the themes from Dawn (except Koba's, I think?), adds some nice new ones, and evolves Caesar's theme in a cool way.
 
Spider-Man: Far From Home: I love the transformation of Mysterio's theme from heroic to villainous.
 
Doctor Strange: Having seen the new movie once and listened to Elfman's score 4-5 times now, I don't think Elfman's score has the strong sense of identity or distinct color palette that Giacchino's Doctor Strange does. I think Elfman's score serves its movie well and I'm sure I'll appreciate it more over time, but for now I'm still wishing I could peek into the universe where Giacchino got to score MoM.

Track times revealed since its up on iTunes
 
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/bad-times-at-the-el-royale-original-motion-picture-score/1438638635
 
1 The Suite at the El Royale 7:52
2 A Room with an Entrez-Vous 0:55
3 Let the Spieling Begin 1:54
4 Rough Around the Ledger 3:04
5 It's Ms. You to You 1:40
6 Mirror Mortals 2:36
7 When Push Comes to Hoover 1:46
8 Darlene-Eyed Monster 0:53
9 My Memory, My Memory 1:41
10 I Spy with My Little FBI 2:06
11 Sea You Again Soon 1:38
12 The Doors of Deception 2:38
13 Voyeur in so Much Trouble 6:05
14 Clingin' in the Rain 6:54
15 A Bang up Robbery 3:08
16 You Can't Flynn 'em All 1:09
17 Rose and Cons 2:39
18 A Blaze of Allegory 4:41
19 Billy Lee Is Not My Lover 3:12
20 Roulette the Chips Fall 6:53
21 The Wages of Flynn 1:15
22 Absolution Presents Itself 10:06
 
Bigger cover art too: 
 

http://filmmusicreporter.com/2018/10/10/michael-giacchino-to-return-for-spider-man-far-from-home/
 

New trailer
 
 

Apparently this is getting Live To Projection concerts, but there's nothing on the calendar yet
 
http://filmconcertslive.com/movies/jurassic-world-in-concert/

I had a great time at the concert last night! This was my second time seeing Williams live (the first being Lexington, Kentucky, in February 2014), and he was just as lively and exciting now as he was then. I'm so glad I was able to attend!
 
I was sad that they didn't play "Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra," but I loved getting to hear "The Adventures of Han" and the new "Han Solo and the Princess" arrangement live. Such wonderful pieces! 

I had a great time at the concert last night! This was my second time seeing Williams live (the first being Lexington, Kentucky, in February 2014), and he was just as lively and exciting now as he was then. I'm so glad I was able to attend!
 
I was sad that they didn't play "Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra," but I loved getting to hear "The Adventures of Han" and the new "Han Solo and the Princess" arrangement live. Such wonderful pieces! 

I had a great time at the concert last night! This was my second time seeing Williams live (the first being Lexington, Kentucky, in February 2014), and he was just as lively and exciting now as he was then. I'm so glad I was able to attend!
 
I was sad that they didn't play "Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra," but I loved getting to hear "The Adventures of Han" and the new "Han Solo and the Princess" arrangement live. Such wonderful pieces! 

I had a great time at the concert last night! This was my second time seeing Williams live (the first being Lexington, Kentucky, in February 2014), and he was just as lively and exciting now as he was then. I'm so glad I was able to attend!
 
I was sad that they didn't play "Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra," but I loved getting to hear "The Adventures of Han" and the new "Han Solo and the Princess" arrangement live. Such wonderful pieces! 

I had a great time at the concert last night! This was my second time seeing Williams live (the first being Lexington, Kentucky, in February 2014), and he was just as lively and exciting now as he was then. I'm so glad I was able to attend!
 
I was sad that they didn't play "Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra," but I loved getting to hear "The Adventures of Han" and the new "Han Solo and the Princess" arrangement live. Such wonderful pieces! 

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WOW!  What a concert!!!  That's my wife and me in the middle with the blue shirt, behind the really tall guy (who kept accidentally blocking my view of JW....)---- Johnny is looking right at me.  Awesome picture and amazing night.  The highlights for me were Memoirs of a Geisha, Adventures on Earth, and Han Solo & the Princess.
 
JW hilariously had a slipup and started to call the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra the Boston Symphony Orchestra ---- the crowd let him have it, and he then followed up with a comment about how he will have a really tough time returning to Boston after throwing the opening pitch at the Baltimore Orioles game.  Half the fun of attending a JW concert is getting these fun stories in between brilliant performances.