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Michael Giacchino on New Star Trek Movie Score, Will Use Alexander Courage Theme

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By GustavoLeao / 00:49, 1 November 2007 / Star Trek: Nemesis

SciFi Wire posted a brief interview with longtime J.J. Abrams collaborator and new Star Trek movie composer Michael Giacchino, in which he says he will use Alexander Courage TOS theme in his score for the movie. Here are a few excerpts from the interview.

"I think that the thing to do would be to hold on to the only thing that does speak-that says Star Trek-universally, which is the [opening theme from the original series]," Giacchino said

Giacchino also revealed a few details about the top-secret film's plot and how the theme music fits in. "To me, that fanfare, boom, that says it all right there," he said. "And this film is about everything that came before that. So, yes, I want to keep that. But everything that was done after that, it shouldn't be about that. It needs to be about these characters now and how they met and all of these things. So it's a very kind of specific place and time."

"I grew up listening to all of that great [Trek] music, and that's part of what inspired me to do what I'm doing," Giacchino said.

The full interview is here.



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RE: Horner's treatment (TWOK) was better | Report this post to moderator
By: SurlyJason (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 10:18:38 on Nov 01, 2007

As I watched MI:III I kept thinking: "This sounds like Spock and Kirk fighting on Vulcan" or that was "the Constellation moving toward Doomsday's maw".

I think Giacchino used MI:III for Star Trek practice.

I wish I had the CD here so I could cite the tracks for you.

If nothing else is good about ST XI, I think we can count on a good score.



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By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 09:04:43 on Nov 01, 2007

Yeah, James Horner's scores for The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock are my favorites Star Trek scores ever. "Stealing the Enterprise" is a musical masterpiece.

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