Scoring Rogue One – SWR #250
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Hosts: Riley Blanton and Mark Hurliman
Special Guests: Bethany Blanton and Bruce Gibson
This week’s topics include:
Rogue One tickets on sale in US on Monday, December 28 at 12:01am (12/27 at 9:00 PT)
Exclusive Rogue One merchandise when you order tickets through Atom Tickets
AMC in IMAX offers three different posters each Sunday (AMC tweet)
IMAX Regal collector’s tickets (IMAX)
Final Rogue One trailer (youtube)
Michael Giacchino talks to Entertainment Weekly
Without giving away plot, what were your impressions of it?
It is a film that is in many ways a really great World War II movie, and I loved that about it. But it also has this huge, huge heart at the center of it, and that was the one thing I just didn’t want to discount. Yes, it’s an action movie, and it’s a Star Wars film, and it has all the things that you would come to expect and love about that, but I didn’t want to forget that it was also an incredibly emotional movie as well. That was what really pulled me in. I love working on projects that have an emotional center to them – and not manufactured emotion either, even though, you know, [laughs] it’s a weird thing to say because literally that’s all we’re doing, manufacturing emotion.
Did you incorporate many elements of John Williams’ score?
I think absolutely there are a couple of times when you want to hit upon something that was from the past. For me, even as a fan, it was about going, “Oh, this particular idea would be great if we did it here. I would want to see that if I were watching a Star Wars movie.” As a kid who grew up with John’s music and who was catapulted in this direction because of what he did, I had a very specific idea of what I wanted to use and how I wanted to use it. That being said, I’d say the score is 95 percent original but with little moments [of Williams’ classic score] here or there to accent. If I were sitting in that seat and I heard that, it would totally raise the hairs on my neck.
Did you get to do your take on the Imperial March?
[Laughs] Maaaaaaybe.
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