By GustavoLeao / 13:16, 6 March 2013 / Star Trek: Nemesis

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FirstShowing.net posted a new interview with composer Michael Giacchino, in which he  talks about his work on "Star Trek Into Darkness." He was candid about many of the challenges to writing a film score:

"You've all seen movies where the music isn't working with the story. And it's either because... the story isn't working itself. Or the composer kinda just wants to write whatever they want to write, not paying attention to the thing. And you leave feeling unsatisfied, and you may not notice it, but it's part of the bigger puzzle. So it's always important, I think, to keep track of what's going on in that story. So when I'm working, I'll get all my beats down that I want to hit, and I'll start writing, but I'll always double check it against/play it back with dialogue and effects, just so I have an idea of what the finished picture will be."

Giacchino explained his collaborative relationship with "into Darkness" director J.J. Abrams as a team effort to bend the imaginations of movie-watchers:

"Everything that J.J. wants you to feel and follow, I'm there to help kinda yank you through. And yes, you can call that manipulation, it is! All of it... Any film is manipulation, really. None of this is real. So anyone who says, 'you were manipulating me!' Well, no shit, of course we were manipulating you, that's why you go to the movies - to be manipulated."

During the FirstShowing.net interview, Giacchino offered some of his personal insight into the film's unconventional opening and how his music fit in with it:

"The opening of the film is quite different from what you would expect from the opening, I think, of a Star Trek film. It starts off in the hospital and you're kind of like-wait, am I in the right theater? What is this? Where the heck am I? And that's intentional. We really wanted to give the audience a distance from the characters. Not speak too plainly about what it is that they're doing, what's going on, the music isn't commenting too much about what's happening. But the idea was to get across that - what you see in front of you, is what you see in front of you, but there's something much bigger going on behind the scenes. And what is that? I don't know yet. We don't know. But it's growing, and it's evolving, in a way in which Star Trek music really traditionally doesn't really do."