The Ender’s Game score, which was composed by Steve Jablonsky and released by Varese Sarabande, will be pressed for vinyl records that are already up for pre-order on Amazon.com.
The record will be available on December 10, 2013.
Via Modern Vinyl
The Ender’s Game score, which was composed by Steve Jablonsky and released by Varese Sarabande, will be pressed for vinyl records that are already up for pre-order on Amazon.com.
The record will be available on December 10, 2013.
Via Modern Vinyl
The Ender’s Game soundtrack, which was composed by Steve Jablonsky and is being released by Varese Sarabande, is available today, October 22, 2013. Fans on Twitter reported yesterday that the soundtrack had shipped. The score features 21 tracks of music composed for the film, out in theaters in just 10 days!
Order the soundtrack from Amazon here.
It’s Day 14 of the Countdown to NovEnder and we’ve got a great prize for you to win today: 2 copies of the Ender’s Game soundtrack by Steve Jablonsky courtesy of Varese Sarabande.
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Ender’s Game composer Steve Jablonsky has given a brief statment about his score for the film, out November 1 2013.
“Ender’s Game is big but also very personal, which is an interesting combination for any composer. For some scenes, I’m using an 80 piece orchestra and 32 member choir, while in other scenes I am using a simple solo instrument. Ender is a very isolated character for much of the film so I felt that a solo cello would play that isolation nicely and it became an important element in the score.”
Listen to three tracks from the score on SoundCloud:
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Listen to the full track Sappho Rise by David Joseph Wesley in the video below. The music was used in the International Fleet propaganda video ‘Battle School Needs You’ (also below).
Thanks to Fernanda for the find! David Joseph Wesley has done trailer music for several films including Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon and has also done quite a bit of work in the music department for American Idol.
With Ender’s Game just over 28 days from release, the anticipation is building for longtime fans of the novel worldwide. The movie’s score, which was composed by Steve Jablonsky (Transformers), will be released on October 22, 2013 and contains a total of 21 tracks.
The nice folks over at Varese Sarabande sent over the score for me to listen to and I’ll admit, despite my claims to resist, I listened to it all night. I’ve managed to resist listening to the finale tracks so far, hopefully I can keep that up until I see the movie.
To give you a taste, I’ve been allowed to pick 90 seconds of music to preview from two tracks. The first 45 seconds comes from “Battle Room” and the latter 45 seconds is from “Dragons Win”. Be sure to listen to it and let us know what you think!
Full track list:
Don’t forget to pre-order the soundtrack.
UPDATE: Catch another preview over at Ender News.
Those of you that love trailer music or score in general, you can listen to the track from the second Ender’s Game trailer below, thanks to Non-Stop Trailers.
The music, which is a track titled “Rebirth” by Full Tilt, was composed by Kaveh Cohen and Michael David Nielsen.
To listen to the music from the first Ender’s Game trailer, click here.
Those of you that loved the Ender’s Game trailer music can now listen to the track titled ‘Opus’ by Erich Lee of Hi-Finesse, a movie and video game music production company in Santa Monica, CA.
It’s always been a mystery to me how trailer music is done. Sometimes you just hear mixes of songs, but a lot of trailers seem to have custom music not done by the film’s composer. Hi-Finesse composes custom music scored to picture, so it sounds like the trailer is cut and the music scored around it. No wonder it seemed to flawlessly integrated!
Interestingly enough, Opus was also used in the Percy Jackson trailer, which was released well before the Ender’s Game trailer.
It’s not quite so obvious, playing in the background, so I have no idea! It really sounded like Opus was scored specifically for Ender’s Game and maybe they used it for Percy beforehand?
You can listen to their work on Soundcloud. See if you can recognize the following tracks from other film trailers this year!
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Thanks to @Asmrant for the tip last month! Sorry I was too busy to post it earlier!
UPDATE: Summit Entertainment has just confirmed with me that Steve Jablonsky will in fact be scoring Ender’s Game.
While the last we heard of the Ender’s Game score was a rumor that James Horner would be doing the film’s score, this was never actually confirmed by Summit. When checking IMDB (which has the Ender’s Game trailer featured on the front page!) today, I noticed that the film’s composer had been changed to Steve Jablonsky.
If you’re not sure who he is by name, you’d most likely recognize his work from the three Transformers films.
Here’s a sampling of his music:
While I was thrilled to hear that James Horner was possibly tied to the project, I’d be really pleased with Jablonsky as well. I thought his scores for all three Transformers movies remained great scores even while the entertainment quality of the third movie dipped rather drastically (in my humble opinion).
This story is still a rumor, as IMDB can be edited by anyone with a premium membership. I’ve contacted Summit about confirmation.
According to Film Music Reporter, two time Academy-award winning composer James Horner has signed on to score the upcoming film adaptation Ender’s Game.
As a longtime fan of Horner’s music in truly amazing scores such as Titanic, Braveheart, and Legends of the Fall, I’m trying my best not to utterly freak out over this possibility. But since the site doesn’t quote a source, I’ve tagged it as a rumor until I can get confirmation.
Horner brings an incredible amount of experience to the film, having scored over 150 films in his career in movie music starting back in 1978.