Michael Giacchino's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - 2022 Expanded Edition now available

[Will 2,215]

3 minutes ago, crumbs said:

I did like his dig about the trend of modern film scores being little more than handholding underscore; perhaps referring to Marvel's homogenised music and an indication of Lucasfilm's different approach. 

 

Yeah, I liked hearing that. 

[Disco Stu 15,495]

53 minutes ago, Will said:

 

Not sure how to feel about how there are not too many Williams references. But I guess it makes sense. Ultimately, there are surely going to be so many anthology films that we'll want variety and won't want the films to be slaves to the originals. 

 

 

I mean the percentage of TFA that was existing themes was probably similar, but the ones that were there were very notable, scoring "big" moments in the film.

 

It's not like I'd want Gia to just lift minutes of Williams into the score anyway.  Short thematic references when they're called for sounds good.

[crumbs 14,309]

Well 7 minutes of TFA was existing music, says JW. That's essentially 5% of the final film score, so it's the same in Rogue One

[mrbellamy 6,286]

Anxious to see what Gia does with the Williams themes. Wasn't really a fan of how the JP theme was used in his Jurassic World score, but I feel like there's a chance this may turn out better and more cohesive (if he was able to navigate the time crunch). Found it interesting that he had pretty specific opinions of how he wanted to use stuff after seeing the film.

[Red 75]

I don't anticipate there being many existing themes used. The force theme will obviously be there, as well as the Imperial march and the main theme. Other than that I expect new thematic material. 

[Wojo 2,453]

I expect Lando's Theme, Duel of the Fates, and the Forest Battle to be used prominently. 

[artguy360 1,843]

Even though I think very highly Giacchino, I am excited to hear this score. Just to see how he plays around in JW's world will be fun. I was pretty disappointed with his score to Lost World but I think Rogue One will be much better despite the short schedule. The sad thing is we'll probably never hear what Desplat had done. I was kind of more excited for his score than I am for Giacchino's. 

[Luke Skywalker 1,795]

The interview left me wuth mixed feelings...

 

In once hand we have Giacchino writting in WWII style, and geting very invilved with the film

 

On the other hand we get giacchino not being forced to mimick williams and do his own thing (like in star trek). 5% references of Williams material....

 

I really hoped much more williams...not re-recordings but use of his themes in different ways. I mean. everytime darth vader (or the empire) is on screen the imperial march must play as it does with williams. Not only in his first revelation scene.

 

Well lets see when we get in the end.

 

 

[Bilbo 3,709]

Gia is probably better doing his own thing rather than cooying Williams as Jurassic World showed us .

Which Medal of Honor scores should I check out?

[BloodBoal 7,538]

The first one is a good place to start. Then if you like that one, move on to the next ones.

[Incanus 5,714]

57 minutes ago, Bilbo Skywalker said:

Gia is probably better doing his own thing rather than cooying Williams as Jurassic World showed us .

Which Medal of Honor scores should I check out?

I would recommend MOH Frontline, which I still consider the best of the bunch.

[BloodBoal 7,538]

Don't listen to Inky.

 

Start with the first one, then continue in chronological order onwards.

[leeallen01 2,136]

Great interview! Very educated and humble from Giacchino. He sounds like he knows exactly what he's doing, and is confident in what he has done. I like the thing about it being 95% new music. Which is exactly what I wanted. And his jokey "maaaaaybe" when asked if he did his own version of the Imperial March. 

 

This sounds like it's going to be a combination of his eerie percussion and sweepingly thematic stuff from LOST, and his WW2 Medal of Honour style.

 

It could be a damn fine score me thinks.

[Brónach 1,302]

Gia or Alex, we are going to talk a lot about this. Probably too much. 

[Giftheck 916]

12 minutes ago, BloodBoal said:

Don't listen to Inky.

 

Start with the first one, then continue in chronological order onwards.

 

In my view, the first two are definitely the best of Giacchino's Medal of Honor work. Wasn't a huge fan of how Airborne turned out - the mix is too muddy, like Trek 2009.

[Bilbo 3,709]

41 minutes ago, BloodBoal said:

Don't listen to Inky.

 

Start with the first one, then continue in chronological order onwards.

There's quite a few!

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[Bilbo 3,709]

That's fair point. 

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[Bilbo 3,709]

It'll be this evening before I can listen to it (not downloading before I get on wifi) but I'll definitely listen to the first one this evening. 

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[Jay 37,352]

3 hours ago, Bilbo Skywalker said:

Which Medal of Honor scores should I check out?

 

Absolutely start with the first. It sets the table for what the series sounds like and has some rockin action cues

 

https://open.spotify.com/album/7pYd9qVJOJcmpqYjSUzLgf

[Luke Skywalker 1,795]

7 scores Bloodboal?

 

It's just 5

 

I would start chrnologically

 

MOH
MOH: Underground

MOH: Frontline

MOH: Allied Assault

Then, i would listen to Secret weapons ofver normany

 

And then MOH: Airborne

 

That way, you can see the Giacchino sound evolve through time.

[BloodBoal 7,538]

2 minutes ago, Luke Skywalker said:

7 scores Bloodboal?

 

It's just 5

 

MOH
MOH: Underground

MOH: Frontline

MOH: Allied Assault

And then MOH: Airborne

 

+ MOH: Vanguard and MOH: Heroes 2

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Giacchino#Video_games_2

[Luke Skywalker 1,795]

compilations, no new music on them

 

We have known this.... for ages now, BB.

[BloodBoal 7,538]

Well I didn't, so sue me!

[Jay 37,352]

Those games simply reuse cues from older games. He only wrote five MOH scores. Don't you have the LLL box set? 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,516]

How much are you worth?

 

[Jay 37,352]

What? 

[BloodBoal 7,538]

8 minutes ago, Jay said:

Those games simply reuse cues from older games. He only wrote five MOH scores. Don't you have the LLL box set? 

 

No.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I only had the first MOH score. Autographed by the composer.

 

Gave it away.

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[Jay 37,352]

7 minutes ago, BloodBoal said:

 

No.

 

Why not? 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I gave it to your sister, actually.

[BloodBoal 7,538]

6 minutes ago, Jay said:

Why not? 

 

Because I wasn't familiar with the scores when it was released.

 

6 minutes ago, Stefancos said:

I gave it to your sister, actually.

 

Gave it for free, right?

[Will 2,215]

4 hours ago, Luke Skywalker said:

I really hoped much more williams...not re-recordings but use of his themes in different ways. I mean. everytime darth vader (or the empire) is on screen the imperial march must play as it does with williams. Not only in his first revelation scene.

 

Well, I too like to hear significant Williams, but remember: A) Vader's supposedly barely in the film, so even by your logic Gia wouldn't need to use his theme much and B) This:

 

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And so there’s, I think, about 102 minutes of music in the film, and we’ve measured that there’s seven minutes of references to the earlier films.

 

That's JW speaking about TFA. That means that just under 7 percent of TFA's music was old themes. So if Gia estimates that about five percent of his score is old themes, that's pretty consistent with TFA. 

 

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[Incanus 5,714]

10 minutes ago, BloodBoal said:

Why should we care that Williams' themes aren't used a lot? I mean, we have 7 fucking scores (soon 8) with his themes! Is that not enough? I'd rather have more completely new music, thank you very much! Use the theme when appropriate, we don't need more than that.

Yes. Some appropriate quotes of JW themes here and there is the way to go to anchor the movie into the same universe as the other films. I'd rather have Giacchino compose an original score in the Star Wars vein than do a dutiful string of theme renditions from JW's scores.

[Brónach 1,302]

I keep imagining Taking Out the Railgun to scenes in the trailers.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

1 hour ago, BloodBoal said:

 

Gave it for free, right?

 

That's what i said gave away rather than sold, Alvar.

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I never have! 

[Bilbo 3,709]

I think I paid €5 for the Incredibles. 

[BloodBoal 7,538]

Too much! That's too much!

[Bilbo 3,709]

I was young and foolish this time last year. 

 

Ivl think that's the only Djiatchino music I own. 

 

Will buy Rogue One obviously. 

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Only if they are less than €5 each!

 

Come to think of it. There's a decent possibility that Rogue One will be the first ever Star Wars score I will not be buying.

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[Bilbo 3,709]

4 minutes ago, BloodBoal said:

5 copies, right? One with each of the different available covers.

 Plus one extra for listening. 

 

 

And the vinyl. 

 

And the cassette if there is one. 

[Will 2,215]

1 minute ago, BloodBoal said:

5 copies, right? One with each of the different available covers.

 

Yes! In fact, I just found this (not kidding):

 

Disney Music Emporium Site Featuring Collectible Music Products To Offer 30% Off On Black Friday And Cyber Monday Plus Weekly Friday Offers In December

 

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Dec. 16: Rogue One CD with exclusive lithograph.

 

Lovely!