Danny Elfman Scoring Justice League

Who should the composer be?

  • John Williams

  • Danny Elfman

  • Michael Giacchino

  • Alan Silvestri

  • Howard Shore

  • James Horner

  • Harry Gregson-Williams

  • Hans Zimmer

  • James Newton Howard

  • Other (post who if you choose this option)

  • John Williams

  • Danny Elfman

  • Michael Giacchino

  • Alan Silvestri

  • Howard Shore

  • James Horner

  • Harry Gregson-Williams

  • Hans Zimmer

  • James Newton Howard

  • Other (post who if you choose this option)

  • John Williams

  • Danny Elfman

  • Michael Giacchino

  • Alan Silvestri

  • Howard Shore

  • James Horner

  • Harry Gregson-Williams

  • Hans Zimmer

  • James Newton Howard

  • Other (post who if you choose this option)


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These are the sheet note credits - it's legit. For instance, the sheet notes for Elfman's AoU cues credits Silvestri because his theme was used. Had Junkie had any hand in writing the Batman theme, he would have had a credit - he doesn't. This is an official website and the site's runner has said as much himself; he even went as far as to say that Junkie had more to do with MoS than BvS.

The Batman theme is Men Are Still Good, which is credited to both Zimmer and JXL. Beautiful Lie is not Batman's theme, it's Bruce's theme I'd say?.. But Batman's music is Men Are Still Good, it's actually called "(The Batman Suite)".
 
I'm looking forward to this score with the biggest anticipation since the MOS soundtrack.
 
not even the action? the zaction*

So far the action..looks like it's standard 5-man-army action. I could be wrong, though. I feel like the score could transcend the movie.

With Goosebumps I felt like I was watching a standard kids big budget B movie parody (Monsters are taking over the city..oh no!). But with Elfman's score, the more emotional parts seemed to work.

I listened to B89 before I saw it, and I gotta say, I derived more emotional impact listening to it than watching the movie. It's a classic, though.
 
I am predicting the score will be super vanilla, except where they reuse Zimmers old score. My expectations are extremely low
 
Yeah, Danny Elfman could never come up with anything as clever as drums...
 
I hate to say it, but my interest in the movie increased 10x when Joss came on and brought on Elfman.

As interesting as Whedon's involvement is, the bulk of the film is still Snyder and Terrio's. Besides, I thought his work on Avengers was very hit and miss (not a fan of Avengers 1). The trailers haven't done anything for me, and I'll be very surprised if the film doesn't end up being Frankenstein hodgepodge disaster of a movie.

Junkie didn't write the Batman theme for BvS. He didn't have a hand in the Wonder Woman or Luthor themes either.

He's no loss even if you liked that stuff.

Except Zimmer co-worked with J XL because he did not want to score Batman stuff again after his work with Nolan so basically everything Batman in BvS was scored by J XL, including his theme, the fight between the two, etc.

I wonder where do you get your informations from?

The site ddddeeee quoted is accurate. The runner of h-z.com has close ties to Zimmer and Co. and regularly posts info about what went down behind the scenes, as well as the composer credits for who worked on each cue.

I've said this many times before in this thread, but all of the thematic material of BvS was Zimmer's (Beautiful Lie, Lex, WW, Batman). The only theme Junkie was involved with was Batman, and that was maybe 10% at most; 90% of Batman's theme was still Zimmer.

Junkie's main responsibility was the action stuff (Do You Bleed, Fight Night, Black and Blue). Even if you didn't have the composer credits, you could tell because it sounds almost exactly like his work on Mad Max.

So while I'm still a little bummed we won't get the direct continuation of sound from MoS and BvS that Junkie would have provided, the main thematic voice of the DCEU was never going to be involved anyways, so it's no big loss to me.
 
At 1:35, I am thinking this is the Justice League theme by Danny Elfman.



Remember how "Men are Still Good" theme used to play during the title appearance in BVS trailers?
 
Yeah, Danny Elfman could never come up with anything as clever as drums...
Your condescension is appreciated. If Elfman's score is better than zimmers than the world has been blessed with all time great piece music, and I will be happy for it. I just dont believe that is what we will get. My expectations are set low so I wont be dissapointed. I just hope they reuse lots of the previous works in appropriate places and that the new character motifs are serviceable.
 
Not necessarily. IT was 135 minutes long, and that got a 2-CD release. The full score was 90-100 minutes total, so it got a near-complete release. Ditto for Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them.

If JL gets a 2-CD release, that doesn't mean the film will be close to the length of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Must be a trend with WaterTower Music then.
 
Must be a trend with WaterTower Music then.

I think they've looked at the titles they've licensed to Intrada, La La Land Records, and Varese Sarabande and realize that collectors really like expanded releases (especially the LLL expanded releases of Batman and Batman Returns). So by keeping some of the bigger catalog titles to themselves, they show up the specialty outlets with 2-disc releases right off the bat.

Plus some CD releases include bonus tracks not included with the digital releases, which make it a boon for collectors.
 
As interesting as Whedon's involvement is, the bulk of the film is still Snyder and Terrio's. Besides, I thought his work on Avengers was very hit and miss (not a fan of Avengers 1). The trailers haven't done anything for me, and I'll be very surprised if the film doesn't end up being Frankenstein hodgepodge disaster of a movie.





The site ddddeeee quoted is accurate. The runner of h-z.com has close ties to Zimmer and Co. and regularly posts info about what went down behind the scenes, as well as the composer credits for who worked on each cue.

I've said this many times before in this thread, but all of the thematic material of BvS was Zimmer's (Beautiful Lie, Lex, WW, Batman). The only theme Junkie was involved with was Batman, and that was maybe 10% at most; 90% of Batman's theme was still Zimmer.

Junkie's main responsibility was the action stuff (Do You Bleed, Fight Night, Black and Blue). Even if you didn't have the composer credits, you could tell because it sounds almost exactly like his work on Mad Max.

So while I'm still a little bummed we won't get the direct continuation of sound from MoS and BvS that Junkie would have provided, the main thematic voice of the DCEU was never going to be involved anyways, so it's no big loss to me.

The Knightmare sequence definitely sounded like Mad Max.
 
At 1:35, I am thinking this is the Justice League theme by Danny Elfman.



Remember how "Men are Still Good" theme used to play during the title appearance in BVS trailers?


That was barely a theme, I hope Elfman can come up with something much better than that.

H**k, even I can compose better themes than that. :funny: That was just some filler music, IMO.
 
I think this will be the weakest film of DC in terms of OST. If it is anything that I am very confident about this film, then it's this, undoubtedly.
 
How the hell is that even possible when Suicide Squad exists. The score to that was as underwhelming as can be.
 
Yeah I’m gonna disagree there

Elfman will deliver, too much hate over his AOU stuff (which he wasn’t even there long enough to work on, but still sounds pretty good imo)
 
I'm an Elfman supporter. Feel good about him.
 
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Justice League theme snippet LEAKED
 
Sounds like an existing track played backwards.
 
When I think of Elfman’s comments about using the Williams theme in a different way (did he say darker?) I can’t help but think of the Batman Beyond episode the Call Part 2. In that when Superman was mind controlled by starro they used the Superman the Animated Series theme in a really off kilter way and it was so cool. So I keep imagining that Elfman has probably done something similar with the Williams theme.
 
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