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Now up on Amazon with Oct 12 date, no pre-order though. https://www.amazon.com/First-original-Soundtrack-Justin-Hurwitz/dp/B07GRLVRYG/ 
 
Seeing this tomorrow at the Lido...cannot wait.

Isolated score is coming - 
 
McQuarrie and Balfe will also be doing a podcast on the score
 
 

The producers and Cruise always saw MI as a playground for different directors each time, they never wanted to stick with one person. Until McQuarrie did so well with Rogue Nation that Cruise asked him back. There was a bit of apprehension from people at the time about his decision to return as, sure, RN is great but people had come to expect a different director for these films every time. 
 
And I keep banging on about this, see the damn film before jumping to conclusions about whether McQuarrie doing that and ditching most of his collaborators is bad or not. Or are creative partnerships more sacred over anything else?

The producers and Cruise always saw MI as a playground for different directors each time, they never wanted to stick with one person. Until McQuarrie did so well with Rogue Nation that Cruise asked him back. There was a bit of apprehension from people at the time about his decision to return as, sure, RN is great but people had come to expect a different director for these films every time. 
 
And I keep banging on about this, see the damn film before jumping to conclusions about whether McQuarrie doing that and ditching most of his collaborators is bad or not. Or are creative partnerships more sacred over anything else?

EDIT: finally got a chrono order down for this
 
 

The producers and Cruise always saw MI as a playground for different directors each time, they never wanted to stick with one person. Until McQuarrie did so well with Rogue Nation that Cruise asked him back. There was a bit of apprehension from people at the time about his decision to return as, sure, RN is great but people had come to expect a different director for these films every time. 
 
And I keep banging on about this, see the damn film before jumping to conclusions about whether McQuarrie doing that and ditching most of his collaborators is bad or not. Or are creative partnerships more sacred over anything else?

That's like saying he should have kept Elswit as DoP and not hired the guy who did Annihilation/Ex Machina. Or kept the same costume designer. Or same production designer. Or whoever else he changed between this and Rogue Nation.
 
Come on, is it not clear what McQuarrie tried to do here, which he's been quite open about in interviews?

That's like saying he should have kept Elswit as DoP and not hired the guy who did Annihilation/Ex Machina. Or kept the same costume designer. Or same production designer. Or whoever else he changed between this and Rogue Nation.
 
Come on, is it not clear what McQuarrie tried to do here, which he's been quite open about in interviews?

it's not just in intent (otherwise Zack Snyder's DC films would be less divisive than they are), it's how insanely well McQ executes it. And to think that they only had an outline at the start of shooting and so much of the story/characters were figured out while shooting...in the case of RN it was only the last act that had this experimentation, with this it was approach for the whole film.

Precisely what I've been trying to say, having seen the film. It's *very* Nolan-esque with shades of Mad Max Fury Road, it's both more dramatically heavy and has more action momentum than Rogue Nation or GP, this sort of 'RCP/Zimmer' sound therefore is very fitting.

it's not just in intent (otherwise Zack Snyder's DC films would be less divisive than they are), it's how insanely well McQ executes it. And to think that they only had an outline at the start of shooting and so much of the story/characters were figured out while shooting...in the case of RN it was only the last act that had this experimentation, with this it was approach for the whole film.

For those wondering how Vangelis would sound with 2049 footage... 
 

There's an interview floating around apparently where Elfman says he did NOT use Zimmer/Junkie's Batman theme from BvS.
 
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There's an interview floating around apparently where Elfman says he did NOT use Zimmer/Junkie's Batman theme from BvS.
 
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For those wondering how HZ/BW's opening would work against footage from the original. Obviously just an experiment.
 

That song is just the end credits for that 2022 Blackout anime. The 'Blade Runner' penultimate track is the end credits suite.
 

FYI - the film credits Wallfisch first then Zimmer.
 
Anyway I haven't heard the score on the album but works very well here imo.

Zimmer said in the Q&A that they were brought on board when Villeneuve just finished the first assembly cut, and the four of them (DV, editor Joe Walker,HZ and BW) watched it together all for the first time.

From that interview, it seems like the WW theme and maybe bits of Zimmer's Supes theme are the only bits staying. He even hinted that he isn't keeping the Batman theme from BvS but instead putting in his own old one.
 
Something that was clear from the moment Elfman replaced Junkie - there won't be that same sense of musical continuity between BvS and JL the way there was with MoS/BvS. Same goes for the film itself....

Not OP but
- track record
- grest cast, except maybe Leto (or his reputation)
- the last two: little studio meddling.

If they had inside info, they should have added something to the effect of "per our sources, JJ is off the project completely". Every single page I saw who got it 'wrong' was saying that 'Villeneuve revealed that JJ is getting replaced', which is clearly what not he said in the interview. It's not about reading between the lines, it's about good/bad reporting. Thankfully it was only FSR and a few others who had the 'replaced' part, everyone else quoted it accurately.

The question is, was Johannsson not able to make certain music or did he not want to. Maybe that's what "helping out" means: "If you don't compose it, maybe Zimmer will".

Ignore whatever FSM say and refer back to the French Villeneuve quote posted.

Back from it a second time...some thoughts on the score:
 
I'm now even more curious how the album will handle it. I listened to Supermarine a fair number of times after last week, so I had it fairly fresh in mind...but the sound editors don't present anything as you hear on the album. Take Supermarine - that 8 minute track is sped up, slowed down, chopped and pasted all throughout the entire runtime. Listening to it on its own is probably like - an an analogy - watching The Air sections of the film as one without intercutting to The Mole and The Sea. I'd imagine the rest of the score is similar in this way in terms of how the album will present it. All in all, @Yourfavoratemusic is gonna have a hell of a job putting together a 'film version' mix when the time comes!

no full orchestra, yes. but orchestral instruments experimenting with the ticking/rising motif.
 
the thing is - there's no real theme/melody until the end credits roll. again - in context it's fantastic, out of context though, you be the judge