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ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK OF THE MAZE RUNNER
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
MUSIC BY JOHN PAESANO FOR A NEW SCIENCE-FICTION THRILLER
Sony Classical announces the release of the original motion picture soundtrack of The Maze Runner, by composer John Paesano, available September 16. Directed by Wes Ball, the film is based on James Dashner's New York Times best selling young-adult novel.
The Maze Runner stars Dylan O'Brien in the role of Thomas, who wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys with no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape.
American film composer John Paesano studied classical music with professor Sally Dow Miller of Conservatoire de Paris, and continued his studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he focused on composition. On his path to scoring films on his own, he served minor roles amongst some of the industry's most prestigious composers, including Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, and Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions. In 2012 Paesano received an Annie Award for Best Music for his work on DreamWorks’ animated series Dragons: Riders Of Berk, which is based on the Academy Award® winning film How To Train Your Dragon. In addition to his work on The Maze Runner, Paesano recently scored Sony's sports drama When the Game Stands Tall.
Among the music that has influenced his work on The Maze Runner, John names John Williams‘ celebrated score for Jurassic Park, Jerry Goldsmith’s haunting compositions for Alien, and Hans Zimmer’s emotive score to The Thin Red Line, all of which act like a true character within the story that is being told. Accordingly, in the score for The Maze Runner, he expresses the mysterious space in which the movie unfolds, the maze, and the intensity and pace of the story: the main protagonist Thomas is alone and confused in a very extraordinary place. As Thomas’ memories and awareness develop, so the score matures musically from its subtle, unsure beginning. Themes that are first presented in an unfinished state slowly evolve into their fully realized form. The organic and primal colors of the composition reflect the primitive environment and tribal mindset of the group that Thomas is cast into. Hybrid and non-traditional colors are added as Thomas makes shocking discoveries about the world outside the maze. Although the score is predominantly dark in tone, it has an underlying quality of hopefulness that reflects Thomas’ point of view.
John Paesano’s thoughtful approach to scoring the film and the quality of his compositions make him an exciting emerging talent. The original motion picture soundtrack of The Maze Runner will be appreciated by movie-goers and lovers of classical film scores.
Sony Music Masterworks comprises Masterworks, Sony Classical, OKeh, Portrait, Masterworks Broadway and Flying Buddha imprints. For email updates and information please visit www.SonyMasterworks.com
For more information, please contact:
cinemediapromo@yahoo.com or @cinemediapromo on Twitter
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Jurassic Park, Alien and The Thin Red Line - Quite an eclectic medley of musical inspiration. I'm cautiously optimistic about this one. Not familiar with the composer, but his background seems interesting and promising. Fingers crossed for a real gem from a new composer!
Which means it will probably sound exactly like The Thin Red Line.
It could be any other titles ("inspired by Alexander Nevsky, It's My Party, and The Thin Red Line!") but so long as it has a Zimmer title at the end, that's pretty much what it will end up sounding like.
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Sep 16, 2014 - 7:17 AM
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The whole score is available to stream at various places and is available on iTunes.
As suspected, there's nary a reference to JURASSIC PARK nor ALIEN anywhere, thematically or orchestationally, and even references to THIN RED LINE feel like a stretch.
He might as well have told us; "It's MADAGASCAR 2 meets BEN-HUR meets ROCKY by way of COOL RUNNINGS with just a hint of SILVERADO!" and the comparison would have been about as apt.
An enjoyable, if simplistic theme is developed in the opening cue, but then dropped, not heard elsewhere again (I believe it's an end title cue) and elsewhere murky atmospherics dominate. A few rather standard action-horror cues for orchestra are interspersed, with a few mildly engaging brass passages therein (I stress "mild"), but these moments at best are about on-par with a throw-away Beltrami thriller effort.
Sadly, this one doesn't live up to the composers' promise and he obviously played it very, very safe here.
They should've given this assignment to Roque Banos or Abel Korzeniowski or the like instead.
Booooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg. Where is my metamucil...?
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The Jurassic Park stuff is definitely there (the raptor music), Thin Red Line is clearly the model for the finale, but I didn't hear any Alien. The theme is very James Horner-ish (Spider-Man specifically), some of the action is like Giacchino. Despite that apparent melting pot of other composers, I think the end result is really pretty good.
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