"Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh to score Thor: Ragnarok". " 'Thor: Ragnarok': Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh to Compose Score (Exclusive)".
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Director Taika Waititi would have asked the band Queen to work on the soundtrack for the film (if their lead singer Freddie Mercury was still alive) because the film is "a cool bold, colorful cosmic adventure" which would have suited the "feel" of the band. Patrick Doyle's themes from Thor and Brian Tyler's themes from Thor: The Dark World and Avengers: Age of Ultron, as well as Joe Harnell's "The Lonely Man" theme from The Incredible Hulk series, are also used in the film.
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Mothersbaugh combined synthesizer keyboards he used from his days with the band Devo with a 100 piece orchestra. The synthesized score is influenced by the work of Jean-Michel Jarre. The score was recorded at Abbey Road Studios. Mothersbaugh was influenced by a video essay from the YouTube channel Every Frame a Painting, which criticized the scores from previous Marvel Cinematic Universe films for their lack of memorability, to make the score for Thor: Ragnarok as distinctive as possible. Music was just something that, as it gets pushed further to the end of the project, I think they were just trying to find ways where they could borrow time for effects and for visuals and things, and they took it away from the composer.By August 2016, Mark Mothersbaugh was hired to score the film. They have strong properties because there’s a lot of care taken and a lot of people that really worked hard on them. I knew that I was going to do my best to honor what’s great about Marvel, because the films that Marvel makes are pretty strong. It had had that effect on me in a couple of movies. But you know, we both had seen these things on YouTube where people had done scholarly critiques of Marvel music and had said that it sounded like wallpaper basically. Taika really lured me into the whole project because I was impressed with what he’d done with Hunt for the Wilderpeople and also What We Do in the Shadows. We didn’t know each other, but we both were familiar with each other’s’ work. Was it Taika Waititi’s choice to bring you on board? The Thor: Ragnarok soundtrack is unlike any other Marvel soundtrack. He’s been over to my place and played piano in my studio for the stuff. I didn’t even know that until the last couple years. He lives not that far away, and he’s a great pianist. But in Thor - I hope they let Taika Waititi do a director’s cut that’s about a half an hour longer, because there’s all this kind of crazy ad-libbed stuff that Anthony Hopkins and Jeff Goldblum did that’s really wild.
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Like, by the time we got to The Life Aquatic, Wes was flying me over to Italy to walk through the sets with him and I would write pieces of music for him to listen to on headphones. But usually they’ve shot things by the time you get there. Sometimes if you’re writing a song for a project, you get brought in early. But you know, the reality is that it’s kind of that there’s intellectual properties that get shared and mixed together that, when you’re a composer, you’re at the tail end. Did Thor: Ragnarok feel like a reunion between you two? You’ve also worked with Jeff on commercials.