‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Soundtrack Is Now Available For Pre-Order
Film Music Reporter reports that Walt Disney Records will release the official soundtrack for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story on December 16. The movie’s original music will be composed by Academy Award winner Michael Giacchino, who’s is also known for scores on several blockbuster films including the 2009 J.J. Abrams led Star Trek. Read on for more!
Today, Film Music Reporter has noticed that the original soundtrack for ‘Rogue One’ is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The full album due out on December 16, 2016, will feature music from the film directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) that stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed and Forest Whitaker.
Amazon.com states that:
“This title will be released on December 16, 2016”
That’s quite what everyone expected since the movie hits theaters on the same day (they did the same with TFA). Still, it’s nice to see the actual listing and to know that now you can pre-order the soundtrack. We will keep you updated on more details regarding the soundtrack as they come available.
In the meantime, listen to how Michael Giacchino was able to convey a sense of power in his recent Star Trek: Into Darkness Score. Listen to Main Theme to ‘Into Darkness’ in this sound clip below:
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, directed by Gareth Edwards is set to hit the big screen on December 16.
Looking forward to hearing the music.
Looking forward to the cheesy [pun] titles that Giacchino always tries to get in… (‘As the Jurassic World Turns’ – give me a break)
Re: Track listing/naming mishap?
“Jyn Erso’s Noble End” as the track before end title would be a mistake, imho. 😉
It’s a great lead-in to, “Augie’s Even Greater Municipal Band.” Still trying to figure out who the hell Augie is.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Augara_Jowil
Classic character.
I figured John Powell’s score for How To Train Your Dragon 2 had a much more John Williamsy score
I’ve always liked John Powell. Bourne soundtracks are great!
There’s quite a few composers better than this guy.
Absolutely agree. John Powell would not be my first choice to replace Mr. Williams should he (unfortunately) pass away before IX is completed. I would lean towards someone like Bear McCreary, Alan Silvestri, Howard Shore has some sweeping orchestral stuff. I liked Desplat and what he did with Harry Potter after they made it darker in 4-7. You have to use a composer who is familiar with leitmotif. This is the solid creation of musical themes to represent specific people. The music in Star Wars sets the scenes as much as the film itself. Some composers just make energetic background music…. John Powell is one of those. He does is very well. (Watch Bourne) but wouldn’t be the best to capture the essence of Star Wars after John Williams.
I agree Alan Silvestri or Elliot Goldenthal would be good choices. Howard Shore too grim for Star Wars. Danny Elfman could do a good Star Wars spin-off film if given the chance, on the scale of Batman or Edward Scissorhands. Sadly the very best composer for Star Wars would have been James Horner if he had not passed away.
A Danny Elfman Star Wars would be very interesting…. Perhaps a Yoda spin off? I can imagine some funky themes in there.
Yeah I agree! They’re not an example of how well he can replicate the williams orchestration, though they’re good.
I always thought: if John Williams dies before Ep.9, I would be very glad to have Giacchino as his substitute. Surprisingly, this happened and no one got hurt. Could I be happier?
Williams begs to differ
He’s scoring R1, not IX.
Yes I know. But it’s a Star Wars movie, isn’t it? so I’m glad to have Williams and Giacchino working to the saga AT THE SAME TIME.
This was the arcane meaning of my post.
Wonder if it will accidentally get released early again. I love listening to the music by itself and trying to picture what is going on.
Wasn’t it quite recently announced that Giacchino was hired as the score composer? I wonder how he could possibly come up with a good score so quickly. Has he been using some music from the previous composer? Or maybe: was he actually hired on quite some time before the actual announcement was made? It worries me: it would be a shame if the first non-John Williams cinematic Star Wars score was a rush job..
It was more recently announced but doesn’t mean he couldn’t have been working on it for 2 or 3 months before it was announced he was.
They don’t tell us things the day they decide them
Just because the Score is listed for pre-order doesn’t mean its actually finished…there isn’t even a track listing by now, so my guess would be he’s hard at work ATM.
Hello guys. It would be great to see this movie
I want to see this movie
this score sounds rushed, generic and the orchestrations are very boring. You can predict everything that is about to happen in the music. He is no John Williams that is for sure. This piece rushes along and it does not move you or inspire you or tell a story like a theme by John Williams. Anything can sound pretty good with an orchestra, sadly this is very bland. Doesn’t bode well for Star Wars.