Oscar-nominated composer Marco Beltrami creates a stirring, evocative score for Twentieth Century Fox’s contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, FANTASTIC FOUR.
Beltrami co-scored the film with iconic minimalist composer Philip Glass.
FANTASTIC FOUR opens in theaters nationwide on August 7, 2015.
The soundtrack is terrific and is available digitally now; on CD August 14, 2015 from Sony Classical.
Directed by Josh Trank, and screenwriters Jeremy Slater and Simon Kinberg (“X-Men: First Class,” X-Men; Days of Future Past”, “Sherlock Holmes”), FANTASTIC FOUR is a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s first, and longest-running superhero team. Based on the Marvel comic written by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the film follows four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe that alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
The film stars Miles Teller as Reed Richards, Kate Mara as Susan Storm, Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm, Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm, and Toby Kebbell as Victor von Doom.
The Fantastic Four score developed from the inquisitiveness of the film’s young protagonists. Beltrami explains, “What we were trying to achieve musically was the spirit of curiosity and innocence. We were inspired by the film’s scientific exploration from the point of view of these young characters, and how their curiosity develops into a position of power.”
To capture the transformation of the film’s characters, particularly that of villain Victor Domashev (Toby Kebbell), Beltrami wanted the music to transform as well. This was accomplished by taking the Fantastic Four theme, then “detuning” the orchestra and processing the instruments for a mutated sound.
Beltrami, who previously scored superhero films Wolverine and Hellboy, was excited by the prospect of exploring new musical territory with his FANTASTIC FOUR collaborators. “It was inspiring working with Josh Trank. He was making something different from the normal superhero movie and sparked a lot of ideas,” explained Beltrami.
On working with Philip Glass, “Philip is a brilliant composer. It was a great creative experience to be able to bounce ideas back and forth with him. I’m looking forward to collaborating with him again.”
Marco Beltrami’s musical palette as a composer spans all film genres. He has two Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score: 3:10 to Yuma, starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, and Best Picture-winner The Hurt Locker, starring Jeremy Renner. He also scored Snowpiercer, starring Chris Evans; The Giver, starring Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges; The Drop, starring Tom Hardy; World War Z, starring Brad Pitt; and AMC’s spy thriller Turn.
Marco Beltrami’s upcoming projects include Hitman: Agent 47, Gods of Egypt, and The Englishman.
Three of Philip Glass’s previous film scores have been nominated for Academy Awards: “Kundun” (1997), “The Hours” (2002) and “Notes On A Scandal” (2006). In 1999, he won the Golden Globe for his soundtrack to “The Truman Show”.
The FANTASTIC FOUR (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) track list is as follows:
- Fantastic Four Prelude
- The Garage
- The Unveiling
- Baxter
- “All My Faith”
- The Lab
- Meeting of the Minds
- It Begins
- Building the Future
- Launch One
- Neil Armstrong
- Maiden Voyage
- Footprints
- “Run”
- Ben’s Drop
- Real World Applications
- Under Pressure
- The Search
- “You’re Going to Like This One”
- Father and Son
- Return
- He’s Awake
- Pursuit
- Strength in Numbers
- End titles
Album Preorder links
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/ost-fantastic4
Spotify: http://smarturl.it/ost-fantastic4-spfy
Amazon CD: http://smarturl.it/ost-fantastic4-CD
