🔊 How a New Generation of Music Composers Changed Superhero Movies Forever

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How a New Generation of Music Composers Changed Superhero Movies Forever

Henry Jackman still remembers the “renegade” film score that changed superhero movies forever. The year was 2010. The movie? Kick-Ass.

Jackman would go on to compose music for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, and X-Men: First Class (among others), but he got his start in the genre with director Matthew Vaughn’s R-rated superhero satire.

“Matthew by his very nature has an unconventional, quite punk kind of attitude,” Jackman tells Inverse. “So, I think almost admirably, he’d convinced himself no kind of normal score would do the trick.”

It didn’t. The director and his team had loaded up the soundtrack with needle drops and electronica, but they were struggling to make a cohesive score. When Jackman came aboard, he suggested a simple solution: The movie needed a “traditional superhero theme” to balance out all the new innovations.

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