Unstable Musical Cues- Glass and Beltrami's Score

[Elevator Man]

From the Con panel:

http://nerdist.com/junkie-xl-brian-tyler-marco-beltrami-discuss-scoring-for-superheroes-at-sdcc/

Next in line was Beltrami, who spoke to a queue of his Fantastic Four score without an accompanying film clip. The score, eerie and mysterious, landed it in musical territory leaning towards fantasy. Asked to describe the scene that accompanies the queue, Beltrami explained the piece as a prelude created with influential composer Philip Glass, from which the rest of the score was adapted. When asked if the new film would be darker than the previous two incarnations of the Marvel franchise, he stated bluntly, “I don’t know, I’ve never seen them,” receiving chuckles and light applause from the audience.


Also from the panel on Twitter paraphrasing:

Theme is youthful discovery
Described music as demon love-child of Elfman and Glass

Interesting description. And Glass is one of Elfman's idols. So I'm even more intrigued about what Beltrami came up with for this movie.

 

[Elevator Man]

Marco Beltrami Fantastic Four Composer Never Saw Past Movies #SDCC
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[Orba]

Looks to mostly be just a rename of some of the tracks so that they are less descriptive.

 

[RAE072]

Amazon seems to have a different tracklist than before

1. Fantastic Four Prelude
2. The Garage
3. The Unveiling
4. Baxter
5. 'All My Faith'
6. The Lab
7. Meeting Of The Minds
8. It Begins
9. Building The Future
10. Launch One
11. Neil Armstrong
12. Maiden Voyage
13. Footprints
14. 'Run'
15. Ben's Drop
16. Real World Applications
17. Under Pressure
18. The Search
19. 'You're Going To Like This One'
20. Father And Son
21. Return
22. He's Awake
23. Pursuit
24. Strength In Numbers
25. End Titles

"1. Fantastic Four Prelude
2. Transporting the Car
3. Science Fair
4. Arriving in the City
5. Boardroom, Baxter’s Lab
6. Reed Enters the Lab
7. Meeting Victor
8. Johnny In the Lab
9. Building the Shuttle
10. Elder Arrives
11. Neil Armstrong
12. Quantum Shuttle
13. First Footprints
14. Planet Zero Escape
15. Elder and Storm, Ben’s Drop
16. Real World Applications
17. Elder Pressures Storm
18. Looking For Reed
19. Ben’s Mission, Finding Reed
20. Storm Talks With Johnny
21. Return to Planet Zero
22. Victor’s Wake
23. In Pursuit of Victor
24. Confrontation
25. End Titles"

Yep. Orba is correct. Same tracks, different, less descriptive wording.

Probably should have gone with the less descriptive. Would have given us slightly less of an idea of what the movie's about.

 

[Orba]

http://filmmusicreporter.com/2015/07/09/fantastic-four-soundtrack-details/

Has updated their site with the newer listing, they are also listing 'Another Body' (the El-P end credits track) as a bonus track.

 

[TheComicbookKid]

Why does Amazon UK have it listed for July 31 and Amazon us August 14?

We fought a war so this wouldn't happen!

 

[YourFewcha]

previews for the soundtrack

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/marco-beltrami-philip-glass-fantastic-four-soundtrack/581330-01/

 

[mclay18]

It sounds unorthodox, but definitely not in the MV/RC realm... it's interesting to hear how it'll work in the film.

 

[Dasher10]

So far it sounds good. I'm digging it.

 

[TheComicbookKid]

The prelude is weird. I love it.

 

[Marvolo]

Well at least the score is good. This will easily fit into my listening rotation.

 

[Elevator Man]

Judging from the samples does either composers style cohesively blend together as one?

 

[psylockolussus]

Awesome previews!

 

[Drz]

 

[psylockolussus]

So I just listened to the leaked "theme song". Is that for the opening credits? I thought no one could ever top John Ottman's FF theme song and I was hoping he would score this film but this new one sounds really good as a theme for the Fantastic Four! Its eery, mysterious, very fitting for a Sci-fi film!

 

[YourFewcha]

well the soundtrack is on itunes several days early for whatever reason and i'm downloading it now

 

[Superhero 101]

Is this part of the soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJAzxa0De9I

 

[YourFewcha]

Is this part of the soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJAzxa0De9I

no, that originally came from a tv show called broadchurch

 

[TheComicbookKid]

The UK is set for today . America on the 14 unless they meant CD and not download.

 

[YourFewcha]

The UK is set for today . America on the 14 unless they meant CD and not download.

idk

all i know is that i bought it and i'm on my second listen. it's a alot more memorable than the DoFP soundtrack for sure.

 

[kguillou]

I listened to this on Spotify this morning and this soundtrack was boring, man. It just felt very....generic and bland. Most of the score is very low key, and theres no notable standout theme like "Time's Up" from DOFP or Magneto's theme from First Class. Nothing grabbed my attention and got me pumped. I'll give it another listen after I see the movie, maybe hearing the score complemented with actual scenes from the movie will enhance it.

 

[Sleiek]

It's nothing special. It is a decent score. But I think it works with the visuals. In the first clip that was recently released, it sounded great even though it is edited.

 

[kguillou]

I'm sure I'll like the score more after seeing the movie and hearing it in context with the film, I just was ...unimpressed with my first listen.

 

[psylockolussus]

I listened to some of the tracks in Spotify (I can't listen to them all in order because I have to pay Spotify and sometimes I can't skip the tracks that aren't related to the film). I think the score sounds pretty good, I liked "Strength in Numbers" the most. However I cannot really appreciate them until I see them used in the film.

 

[YourFewcha]

my favorites so far are neil armstrong, baxter, he's awake, pursuit and strength in numbers. another body is awesome as well. it grew on me a lot since i first heard it.