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The pilot of new Marvel/Whedon TV show S.H.I.E.L.D., which is part of the Avengers franchise, has finished filming. The chances that this thing won't get picked up seem slim. Whedon's previous shows have been scored, among others, by Christophe Beck, Robert J. Kral, Greg Edmonson and Rob Simonsen; there is no particular reason to believe that Whedon will return to any of them. It would be really neat if they could at least hire Silvestri to compose the main theme. . .
Anyway, I wonder who will score, and whether this show will have a generic score or whether it'll have the opportunity to establish a strong musical identity.
Well, Alan Silvestri should do the theme and if he's interested the pilot.
Then turn it over to someone else for the weekly series like Sean Callery, Bear McCreary,etc..
That would be my advice.
Ford A. Thaxton
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My dream pick for the job would be Chris Tilton. S.H.I.E.L.D. is more of a spy organization than anything, and between the awesome retro material he did for the later seasons of ALIAS, he also did 4 and half seasons of excellent work on FRINGE. I don't know if he's gotten another gig since FRINGE wrapped out, but if he's free, they should try to get him.
Tilton's music for the last season of ALIAS is awesome!!!
Alcatraz was the best television scoring of 2012 as well (co-composed with Andrea Datzman)
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Beck left BTVS because he wanted to concentrate on his film-scoring career. He did the musical (what few score cues were in it) in season six because he had been signed for that before he left.
He's scored to pilots this year/late last year.
Whedon has thus far not re-used the same composer on new series except for Beck, but Beck was handing off the series to a new composer.
The main composers for Whedon TV series, unless I am forgetting something, have been thus far:
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer":
Walter Murphy
Christophe Beck
Sean Murray & Shawn K. Clemet
Adam Fields (one episode)
Thomas Wanker
Douglas Romayne Stevens
Robert Duncan
"Angel":
Christophe Beck
Robert J. Kral
"Firefly":
Greg Edmonson
"Dollhouse":
Rob Simonson
Technically Douglas Romayne Stevens did additional music on a nubmer of episodes of "Angel", but that may have been more of a chopice of Kral and some of the show runners other than Whedon, who was busy elsewhere.
Now, Jake Monaco has been working with Beck for a few years now, sometimes doing additional scoring. If Whedon contacted Beck, I could see him doing the pilot and theme, then handing the series off to Jake. But it's unlikely.
Simonson's music was less than satifying; he's had little Jed whedon scoring Dr. Horrible; and the music for the motion-comic "The Astonishing X-Men", as I recall, was disappointing (I excpect better from Plessner). I don't know who the composer was for the motion-comic of season eight of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"; could be Jeff Shuter, but I can't find concrete proof.
I'm not looking forward to the choice of composer.
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I think the suggestion of Chris Tilton is *perfect* -- just listen not only to his work on Alias/Fringe but also his work in games like the amazing Mercenaries released by LLL! Bear McCreary would probably be my second choice based on Human Target and The Cape (not BSG so much).
I just hope they get somebody GOOD and pay for a real ORCHESTRA! Wouldn't it be funny if the TV show ends up having better scores than the Marvel films have by and large? 
Yavar
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I vote for Tilton as well, but mainly so he'll see this and finally sign all of those autographs for me.
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Hey, Djwadi with an orchestra isn't too bad -- look at season 2 of Game of Thrones (not to say that Stephen Warbeck wouldn't have been better, and if he recorded a pilot score I'm dying to hear it!)
Djwadi has shown he can actually work in some thematic development into an HBO show, which is no small feat considering their apparent preference for more subtle music (ie. Deadwood had no traditional "western" scoring, but it was effective in the show).
Anyway, I'm sure Djwadi will continue on Game of Thrones so I don't think you have to worry about him trying to fit S.H.I.E.L.D. into the mix. Whedon has made by and large good choices about composers for his shows, so I think we can trust that this show will have a decent composer even if we've never heard of him or her.
Yavar
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