Danny Elfman’s Post-Apocalyptic Score
Danny Elfman’s latest score is now available on Amazon and iTunes. Terminator Salvation, starring Cristian Bale as John Conner, directed by Joseph “McG” McGinty Nichol (Charlie’s Angels, We Are Marshall) is due in theaters this Thursday, May 21, 2009. In an interview recently, McG mentioned Elfman’s score was inspired by Brad Fiedel’s original Terminator score.
“We were talking about using Brad but it would have felt like a continuation and what I didn’t want was a continuation in this picture, meaning first one – Schwartznegger, second one is the T1000, third one is the TX girl, and the fourth one’s a tranny. We needed to do something different. So, I think the best way to do that is to use the material that Brad has written but get a guy like Danny to ingest it, redefine it, and do his take on it. So, Brad will indeed be honored, but Danny is doing the sound.”
Interesting. Didn’t want it to feel like a continuation, yet the same themes are used? Still, from the sound of it, Elfman has indeed re-imagined the original score and, of course, manages to seamlessly add his own style to franchise. Click on the Amazon sidebar to preview the soundtrack.
