Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The Army of the Dead composer opens up about crafting the epic score alongside Zack Snyder for the zombie heist film. Beyond the score, Holkenborg speaks upon his past musical influences, working with esteemed Hollywood names and his passion towards music education. From filmmaker Zack Snyder, Army of the Dead takes place following a zombie outbreak that has left Las Vegas in ruins and walled off from the rest of the world. When Scott Ward (Dave Bautista), a former zombie war hero who’s now flipping burgers on the outskirts of the town he now calls home, is approached by casino boss Bly Tanaka (Hiroyuki Sanada), it’s with the ultimate proposition: break into the zombie-infested quarantine zone to retrieve $200 million sitting in a vault beneath the strip before the city is nuked by the government in 32 hours. With little left to lose, Ward takes on the challenge, assembling a ragtag team of experts for the heist. With a ticking clock, a notoriously impenetrable vault, and a smarter, faster horde of Alpha zombies closing in, only one thing’s for certain in the greatest heist ever attempted: survivors take all. Tom Holkenborg, aka Junkie XL, is a Grammy nominated multi platinum producer, musician, composer and educator whose versatility puts him on the cutting edge of contemporary music, and whose thirst for innovation is helping to reimagine the world of composition. A full contact composer, Holkenborg is hands on at every stage of the composing process, a multi-instrumentalist who combines a mastery of studio engineering, classical musical training and an innate sense of curiosity. He is as adept working with a 50 piece philharmonic orchestra as he is with a wall of modular synths, playing a bass guitar or building his own physical and digital instruments. His drive to reimagine what’s possible and share that knowledge with the next generation of composers is what makes Holkenborg a unique force, and one of the most in-demand film composers in the world. He has worked with directors including Peter Jackson, Robert Rodriguez, James Cameron, George Miller, Christopher Nolan, Zack Snyder and Tim Miller among many others. An educator as well as a creator, Tom is committed to breaking down the barriers of entry in the world of film composition, creating the free SCORE Academy program in Los Angeles, a music composition program at the ArtEZ conservationism in his home country of the Netherlands and on YouTube, where he hosts his educational series StudioTime, which has been watched millions of times. The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to the Army of the Dead Soundtrack here. Listen to the official Junkie XL playlist here. Learn more about Sony Soundtracks here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sony Masterworks’ Score to Screen Podcast Series features actors and composers discussing passion for their artistry. Guests from the world of film, TV and video games speak to the unique process of crafting musical scores, finding inspiration, writing for particular scenes and characters, utilizing unusual instruments and collaborating with directors. Tune in to get the in-depth scoop on music from The New Pope, Little Women, The Crown, Death Stranding, and more! Listen to the Score to Screen Podcast here: https://soundtracks.lnk.to/scoretoscreenpodcastPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ilan Eshkeri is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The award-winning composer highlights the importance of narrative and story when it comes to crafting score music. Eshkeri provides an in depth look at his soundtrack to the documentary series, A Perfect Planet as well as the admired video game, Ghost of Tsushima. A Perfect Planet is a unique fusion of blue chip natural history and earth science that explains how our living planet operates. This five-part series shows how the forces of nature drive, shape and support Earth’s great diversity of wildlife. It takes us on a stunning visual journey, from lands drenched by the Indian monsoon to the slopes of fiery Hawaiian volcanoes, from the tidal islands of the Bahamas to the frozen wastes of Ellesmere Island. From Arctic wolves prowling moonlit landscapes in winter, to frozen wood frogs magically thawing back to life in spring; from the vampire finches of the Galapagos who drink the blood of seabirds, to the African flamingos who gather in their thousands every year in a vast volcanic lake to breed. The video game, Ghost of Tsushima, takes place in the late 13th century, when the Mongol empire has laid waste to entire nations along their campaign to conquer the East. Tsushima Island is all that stands between mainland Japan and a massive Mongol invasion fleet led by the ruthless and cunning general, Khotun Khan. As the island burns in the wake of the first wave of the Mongol assault, samurai warrior Jin Sakai stands as one of the last surviving members of his clan. He is resolved to do whatever it takes, at any cost, to protect his people and reclaim his home. He must set aside the traditions that have shaped him as a warrior to forge a new path, the path of the Ghost, and wage an unconventional war for the freedom of Tsushima. Ilan Eshkeri is an award-winning composer, artist, songwriter, producer and creator. Eshkeri’s work is performed in concert halls, theaters, galleries, on film and television and in video games. Recent projects include A Perfect Planet, his fourth collaboration with the legendary naturalist David Attenborough and The White Crow which he worked on with Ralph Fiennes. Both followed the creation of a ballet, Narcissus and Echo, choreographed by famed dancer Sergei Polunin with set designs by David LaChapelle and a ballet commission from Rambert Dance Company. Eshkeri has collaborated with Burberry on a landmark fashion show, where he composed and conducted a choral symphonic suite, Reliquary, which then reached No. 1 in the UK classical chart. Before this, he worked with astronaut Tim Peake and the European Space Agency on a film documenting his mission to the International Space Station. He continues his collaboration with Tim Peake and ESA with his spellbinding show Space Station Earth, last performed in Stockholm to an audience of 10,000. Eshkeri’s many creative partnerships include artists such as Annie Lennox, David Gilmour, Sinead O’Connor, KT Tunstall, Tom Odell, Ash and The Cinematic Orchestra. Amongst his extensive catalogue of film and television are multiple Oscar & BAFTA winning films, such as Still Alice, Stardust and Shaun The Sheep.  The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to the Soundtrack to A Perfect Planet here. Listen to the Ghost of Tsushima Soundtrack here. List to the official Ilan Eshkeri Spotify playlist here. To learn more about Sony Soundtracks visit https://lnk.to/son Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeff Russo is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The returning Fargo composer, previously working on the last 3 installments, reflects on how he crafted the Season 4 score starting from scratch with just the script to sketch ideas for various themes that capture each character, the time period and the vast array of stories. In 1950 Kansas City, the fourth installment of Fargo centers on two criminal syndicates who are fighting for a piece of the American dream and have struck an uneasy peace. Together, they control an alternate economy of exploitation, graft and drugs. To cement their truce, Loy Cannon (Chris Rock), the head of the African American crime family, trades his youngest son Satchel (Rodney Jones), to his enemy Donatello Fadda (Tomasso Ragno), the head of the Italian mafia. In return, Donatello surrenders his youngest son Zero (Jameson Braccioforte) to Loy. Intertwined with this tale of immigration, assimilation, and power, are the stories of Josto Fadda (Jason Schwartzman), the impulsive and self-indulgent heir apparent to the Fadda Crime Family; Donatello’s adopted son Rabbi Milligan (Ben Whishaw); Detective Odis Weff (Jack Huston); Oraetta Mayflower (Jessie Buckley); Ethelrida Pearl Smutny (E’myri Crutchfield), the precocious 16-year-old daughter of Thurman (Andrew Bird) and Dibrell Smutny (Anji White) and U.S. Marshal Dick “Deafy” Wickware (Timothy Olyphant). Jeff Russo is an Emmy® Award–winning and Grammy-nominated composer, scoring varied and compelling music for film, television, and video games. He won an Emmy Award and received two additional Emmy nominations for his thrilling and angst-producing score on FX’s Golden Globe and Emmy-winning Fargo. Russo also received a BAFTA nomination for Best Music for Annapurna Interactive’s video game What Remains of Edith Finch. Russo’s film credits include Lucy in the Sky, Lizzie, Mile 22, and Three Christs. Russo recently scored season 4 of Fargo and season 3 of CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Discovery. He’s currently scoring season 2 of Apple TV+’s For All Mankind and Starz’s Power Book II: Ghost, a sequel to Power. His music can also be heard on shows such as Netflix’s Cursed, Altered Carbon, The Umbrella Academy and Lucifer; CBS All Access’s Star Trek: Picard; FX’s Legion and Snowfall; Starz’s Counterpart; HBO’s Golden Globe– and Emmy-nominated series The Night Of. In addition to composing music for film and television, Russo is a founding member, lead guitarist, and co-songwriter of two-time Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum-selling rock band Tonic. Their debut album, Lemon Parade, posted three singles in the U.S. Mainstream rock charts’ Top 10, with “If You Could Only See” rocketing to number one. In 2003, the band received two Grammy nominations, one for “Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal” for “Take Me As I Am,” and one for Best Rock Album. The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to the Fargo Year 4 Soundtrack here. Listen to the official Jeff Russo Spotify playlist here. To learn more about Sony Soundtracks visit https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ludvig Forssell is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The Death Stranding composer recalls his efforts experimenting with everyday household objects to create alien-like sounds which became the backbone of the eerie score. From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima, comes a genre-defying open world action adventure for PS4, starring Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Léa Seydoux and Lindsay Wagner. In the near future, mysterious explosions have rocked the globe, setting off a series of supernatural events known as the Death Stranding. With otherworldly creatures plaguing the landscape, and mass extinction imminent, it’s up to Sam Porter Bridges to travel across the ravaged wasteland and save humanity from impending annihilation. Ludvig Forssell is a Swedish composer, songwriter, and voice actor, as well as an audio director at Kojima Productions. For the Metal Gear series, he composed the soundtracks for Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Forssell also wrote the lyrics for "Sins of the Father," performed by Donna Burke and “Quiet’s Theme,” performed by Stefanie Joosten. As an actor, he provided the voices of minor characters and the likeness for the Shago Platoon commander. The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to the Death Stranding Soundtrack here. Listen to the official Death Stranding playlist here. To learn more about Sony Soundtracks visit: https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard Reed Parry is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The Nest composer explains how his intuitive response to watching the entirety of the film without music inspired how he devised the acoustic score. The Nest follows Rory (Jude Law), an ambitious entrepreneur and former commodities broker, who persuades his American wife, Allison (Carrie Coon), and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the 1980s. Sensing opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison’s horses and plans to build a stable. Soon the promise of a lucrative new beginning starts to unravel, the couple have to face the unwelcome truths lying beneath the surface of their marriage. Richard Reed Parry is the musical polymath at the heart of the endlessly inventive art rock band Arcade Fire, but his work and story reach far beyond. As well as navigating Arcade Fire's meteoric rollercoaster ride around most of the globe over the past fifteen years, he also released his debut album as composer for Music For Heart and Breath in 2014, formed and toured in the acclaimed contemporary instrumental ensemble Bell Orchestre with Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld, formed the sonic folk ensemble Quiet River of Dust, and collaborated and performed endlessly with artists from across a dazzling musical/artistic spectrum including David Bowie, David Byrne, the New York Philharmonic, Neil Young, and more. He has won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, multiple Juno Awards for both Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre, The Polaris Prize, Brit Awards, and Socan Awards among others. The Nest is Parry’s debut feature film score as solo composer. The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to The Nest Soundtrack here. Listen to the official Richard Reed Parry: Complete Collection playlist here. To learn more about Sony Soundtracks visit: https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Composer Keegan DeWitt is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The All The Bright Places composer reveals what it was like crafting the sweeping score, working alongside director Brett Haley, and recording at Capitol Studios. Based on the internationally bestselling novel by Jennifer Niven, All The Bright Places tells the story of Violet Markey (Elle Fanning) and Theodore Finch (Justice Smith), who meet and change each other’s lives forever. As they struggle with the emotional and physical scars of their past, they come together, discovering that even the smallest places and moments can mean something. This compelling drama provides a refreshing and human take on the experience of mental illness, its impact on relationships, as well as the beauty and lasting impact of young love. Keegan DeWitt is one of the more versatile and exciting young composers working in film and TV. Whether adding a refreshing voice to larger projects at HBO, Showtime, and FOX or collaborating alongside notable independent filmmakers; his work crosses a large tapestry of styles and demands attention with its originality and emotion. Over the past 5 years, Keegan has brought 15 films to the Sundance Film Festival; many titles that would go on to garner an Academy Award, multiple Sundance Audience Awards, and an Independent Spirit Award. In addition, Keegan continues to expand on previous collaborative relationships with exciting young directors who have helped make his work a mainstay at festivals worldwide. The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to the All the Bright Places Soundtrack here. Listen to the official Keegan DeWitt Spotify playlist here. Follow Sony Soundtracks: https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Composer Lele Marchitelli is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. Marchitelli recalls scoring certain scenes from The New Pope while working alongside series creator and director Paolo Sorrentino. Marchitelli delves into specific moments from the series and goes into detail about the track creation process. Academy Award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino returns with The New Pope, his second original series set in the world of the modern papacy. Written by Sorrentino with Umberto Contarello and Stefano Bises, the nine-episode original series features Jude Law, John Malkovich, Silvio Orlando, Cécile de France, Javier Cámara, Ludivine Sagnier. Sharon Stone and Marilyn Manson guest star. Of the soundtrack, Marchitelli says, “In soundtracks for cinema and TV, I think it’s not so much the music you use but how you use it. We could use the term ‘counterintuitive’ to describe certain musical choices that take an unexpected direction compared to what the audience expects. Paolo Sorrentino belongs to a set of directors who share this approach; his musical choices, regarding both pre-existing music and original scores, are extremely well thought out and incongruous with respect to the editing of the scenes. If the music says one thing and the dialogues, the acting or the scene in general don’t, it means it has achieved its goal: completing the director’s thinking.” The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to The New Pope Soundtrack here. Listen to the official Lele Marchitelli Spotify playlist here. To learn more about Sony Soundtracks visit: https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Steven Price is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The Archive composer recalls his first moments scoring the movie alongside director Gavin Rothery and explains how he used different synth and sliding guitar sounds to capture the presence of artificial intelligence. Archive is set in the year 2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI. His latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest. He has a goal that must be hidden at all costs: being reunited with his dead wife. In 2014, Steven Price's groundbreaking score for Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity garnered awards wins in the “Best Original Score” category for the Academy Awards, BAFTAs, Critics’ Choice, and ASCAP’s first-ever “Film Composer of the Year” award. Other prominent projects include Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver (2017) and The World’s End (2013), Tom Harper’s The Aeronauts, (2019), Warner Brothers’ blockbuster hit Suicide Squad (2016), and the WWII epic Fury (2014), written and directed by David Ayer, and starring Brad Pitt. Television credits include Believe (2014), produced by Alfonso Cuarón, BBC’s The Hunt (2015), a landmark natural history documentary series for which Price won his second BAFTA Award, and Our Planet (Netflix) which earned two Emmy score nominations for the composer in 2019. Forthcoming 2020 projects include David Attenborough: A Live on Our Planet (Netflix) and Glen Keane’s animation Over the Moon (Netflix). The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to the Archive Soundtrack here. Listen to the official Steven Price Spotify playlist here. To learn more about Sony Soundtracks visit: https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rachel Portman is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The Chocolat composer opens up about how she crafted the woodwind heavy score that features melodies inspired by French villages and the indulgence of chocolate. Portman tells us about her guilty pleasure eating ample chocolate while scoring the film. Adapted from the novel by Joanne Harris, Chocolat is a fun-loving fable about how just one taste of life’s pleasures can change a person, a relationship, town.  It is a tale of temptation, repression and the liberating powers of the senses – the comedic story of an escalating small-town war sparked by the passions and fears aroused by the arrival of a mysterious chocolate shop. Starring Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Lena Olin and Johnny Depp, Chocolat is a David Brown production of a Lasse Hallström film, presented by Miramax Films. British composer Rachel Portman became the first female composer to win both an Outstanding Music Composition Academy Award for Emma and a Primetime Emmy Award for Bessie. She received two Academy Nominations for The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, which also earned her a Golden Globe Nomination. Rachel was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2010 and is an honorary fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. She has written stage and concert works, among them commissions from the BBC Proms and Houston Grand Opera. The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to the Chocolat Soundtrack here. Listen to the official Rachel Portman Spotify playlist here. To learn more about Sony Soundtracks visit: https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Composer Trevor Morris is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. Morris shares his experience composing The Final Season of the Vikings, detailing how the action-packed score vividly captures the dark and dramatic world portrayed throughout the series. On the air since 2013, Vikings was the History channel's first original series created and written by Michael Hirst. It tells the stories of the Norsemen of Scandinavia, beginning with the raid of Lindisfarne and progressing as Viking rule expanded around the world. Season 6 begins six months after the battle of Kattegat that concluded Season 5, with Björn as the new king. Trevor Morris is a two-time Emmy award-winning composer for film, television and interactive media. He has contributed to more than 50 feature films and hundreds of hours of episodic television music. He has conducted live concerts of his music in Spain, Poland, Canada and California. Internationally renowned for his music on The Tudors, The Borgias, Vikings, and feature films such as Olympus Has Fallen, The Hills Have Eyes 2, Hunter Killer and Immortals, Morris is a stylistically and musically inventive soundtrack creator. The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to the Vikings Final Season Soundtrack here. Listen to the official Trevor Morris Spotify playlist here. To learn more about Sony Soundtracks visit: https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Award-winning composer Alexandre Desplat is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. Desplat reflects on how he crafted the modern score for Little Women by drawing on personal memories with his sisters, utilizing two pianists and four hands to represent the women in the film, and recording in New York City with various esteemed musicians. Little Women is written and directed by Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) and draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott. In Gerwig’s take, the beloved story of the March sisters – four young women each determined to live life on her own terms – is both timeless and timely. Portraying Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth March, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, and Eliza Scanlen, with Timothée Chalamet as their neighbor Laurie, Laura Dern as Marmee, and Meryl Streep as Aunt March. Composer, orchestrator and conductor Alexandre Desplat is one of the most worthy heirs of the French film scoring masters. A true cinephile, his approach to film composition is not only based on his strong musicality, but also on his understanding of cinema, which allows him to intimately communicate with directors. Inspired by the works of Maurice Jarre, Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota and Georges Delerue, he expressed his desire to compose for cinema early on but really made his decision after listening to John Williams’ Star Wars score. After scoring fifty European films, with legendary French directors such as Philippe de Broca and Francis Girod, in 2003 he burst onto the Hollywood scene with his evocative score to Peter Webber’s Girl with a Pearl Earring. In 2007 he received his first Academy Award nomination for Stephen Frears’ The Queen which earned him his first European Film Award. The same year he won the Golden Globe, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award and the World Soundtrack Award for his score to John Curran’s The Painted Veil. In 2010-2011 Desplat scored David Yates' films Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part I and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. In 2018, Desplat won an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA for Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water. He was nominated in 2019 for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs, and in 2020 for an Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA for Little Women. The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to the full Little Women Soundtrack here. Listen to the official Alexandre Desplat Spotify playlist here. To learn more about Sony Soundtracks visit: https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Daniel Pemberton is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The Enola Holmes composer provides a glimpse into how he crafted the sweeping, melodic score for the film by integrating themes based off the playfulness of characters and their exciting adventures. Streaming now on Netflix, Enola Holmes is based on the series of young adult novels written by Nancy Springer. When Enola Holmes (Sherlock’s teen sister) discovers her mother missing, she sets off to find her, becoming a super-sleuth in her own right as she outwits her famous brother and unravels a dangerous conspiracy around a mysterious young Lord. Starring Millie Bobby Brown, Sam Claflin, Fiona Shaw and Louis Partridge with Henry Cavill and Helena Bonham Carter. Directed by Harry Bradbeer, Enola Holmes is produced by Mary Parent, Alex Garcia, Ali Mendes, Millie Bobby Brown, and Paige Brown, and written by Jack Thorne. Daniel Pemberton is a multi-Golden Globe, Emmy and BAFTA Award-nominated composer who has been regularly cited as one of the most exciting and original new voices working in modern film scoring today. Constantly working with some of the most renowned names in the industry Pemberton has already scored projects for the likes of Danny Boyle (Steve Jobs, Yesterday), Ridley Scott (All The Money In The World, The Counsellor), Aaron Sorkin (Molly’s Game, The Trial of The Chicago 7), and Darren Aronofsky (One Strange Rock). He has received Golden Globe nominations for his mix of opera and electronics to Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs, his modern neo-noir jazz score to Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn as well as one for Best Original Song – performed and co-written by Iggy Pop – for the Stephen Gaghan film Gold. He was recently nominated for an Emmy for his work on the groundbreaking "USS Callister" episode of Black Mirror for Netflix. He was previously honored as Discovery of The Year at the World Soundtrack Awards in 2014 and nominated as Composer of the Year in 2016. His most recent projects include Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, Rising Phoenix, The Trial Of The Chicago 7, Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and Spider-Man™: Into the Spider-Verse. The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to the Enola Holmes Soundtrack here. Listen to the official Daniel Pemberton Spotify playlist here. To learn more about Sony Soundtracks visit: https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Composer Jung Jaeil is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The Parasite composer tells of his experiences working alongside director Bong Joon-ho and crafting the minimalist, piano-driven original score for the Academy Award-winning film. Parasite highlights the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist, to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. The Kims provide “indispensable” luxury services while the Parks obliviously bankroll their entire household. When a parasitic interloper threatens the Kims’ newfound comfort, a savage, underhanded battle for dominance breaks out, threatening to destroy the fragile ecosystem between the Kims and the Parks. Jung Jaeil is a Korean musician, composer, and music director who began his music career in his teens and has since become recognized in the industry as a man of wide-ranging talents. His scores include Okja and the 2019 Palme D'Or and Best Picture Oscar winner Parasite. The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to the Parasite Soundtrack here and purchase the vinyl here. Listen to the official Jung Jaeil Spotify playlist here. To learn more about Sony Soundtracks visit: https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Martin Phipps is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The Crown: Season Three composer reveals how he captured the emotions of each character to allow the audience to lean more into the drama. Listen to Phipps discuss his experience working alongside show creator Peter Morgan and his team of directors. The third season of The Crown sees a new guard sweep into Downing Street, as Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) and her family struggle to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing Britain. From cold-war paranoia, through to the jet-set and the space age – the exuberance of the 1960s and the long hangover of the 1970s – Elizabeth and the Royals must adapt to a new, more liberated, but also more turbulent world. Written by Peter Morgan, The Crown also stars Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret, Tobias Menzies as The Duke of Edinburgh, Josh O'Connor as Prince Charles, Erin Doherty as Princess Anne, Ben Daniels as Lord Snowdon, Jason Watkins as Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Charles Dance as Lord Mountbatten. Coming from a musical background, Martin studied drama at Manchester University. Fortunately for the acting profession, he decided to concentrate his energies on writing music. Since scoring his first TV drama, Eureka Street (2002), he has won 2 BAFTAs and 5 Ivor Novello Awards, and gone on to write music for many of the most interesting series of recent years, including the BBC's War and Peace, Hugo Blick’s Black Earth Rising, Peaky Blinders and Black Mirror. Martin’s credits include the Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds movie Woman In Gold (scored with Hans Zimmer), Fox Searchlight’s The Aftermath, starring Keira Knightley and Alexander Skarsgård, Harry Brown and Brighton Rock. The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to The Crown: Season Three Soundtrack here and get the vinyl here. Listen to The Crown Official Netflix Series playlist here. To learn more about Sony Soundtracks visit: https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Composer Guy Jackson is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The Sea of Solitude composer shares details about challenges he faced translating the heavy emotional themes from the video game as well as discusses the exciting experience of arranging tone poems for each character. Sea of Solitude takes you on a personal journey of a young woman’s loneliness.  As the gameplay unfolds, set sail across a beautiful and evolving world, where nothing is quite what it seems. Meet fantastical creatures and monsters, learn their stories, and solve challenges.  Explore a flooded city, either by boat, on foot, or by swimming through the water itself. Dare to look what lies beneath the surface, in a haunting struggle of darkness and light, and discover what it truly means to be human. Based in North London, Guy Jackson specializes in highly crafted layered musical compositions, amalgamating acoustic and electronic sounds while encompassing both classical and ambient genres. His work is perfectly suited to the silver screen, enhancing and supporting the mood and tone of a broad variety of visual content. Guy is the resident composer and sound designer for Berlin-based online game creators, Jo-Mei Games. He scored and produced the sound effects for titles such as Koyotl, Who Let the Pets Out? and Monkey Bay. Another of the titles that benefited from the Guy Jackson treatment, Brave Little Beasties (published 2013), was rated 10/10 for sound by Browsergame-magazin.de  ─ proof, if ever there was any doubt, that a Guy Jackson score will enhance your visual creative. In association with his long-term collaborator, pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole, Guy produced two CDs with the critically acclaimed Transparent Music project, which features musicians such as the legendary Davy Spillane, trumpeter Arve Henriksen, bassist Mo Foster and slide guitarist Michael Messer. The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to the Sea of Solitude Soundtrack here. Listen to the official Filtr Gamer Fuel playlist here. To learn more about Sony Soundtracks visit: https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Composer Mark Korven is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. Korven elaborates on his experience working alongside director Robert Eggers while composing the hypnotic score for The Lighthouse. From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes his latest The Lighthouse, a hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, A24’s The Lighthouse made its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Mark Korven is a Toronto based composer for film and television. He is best known for his work on the 2016 period horror film The Witch, which won Robert Eggers the best director award at the 2015 Sundance Festival. His scores have been nominated fourteen times for Canadian film and television awards, winning several. He has also composed feature film scores for acclaimed directors Deepa Mehta, Patricia Rozema and Vincenzo Natale. Korven is also a multi-instrumentalist specializing in world music. The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to The Lighthouse Soundtrack and get the vinyl here. Listen to the official Mark Korven Spotify playlist here. To learn more about Sony Soundtracks visit: https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Saxophonist, songwriter and composer Colin Stetson is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The Color Out of Space composer breaks down his process of layering different sounds in order to find the sonic representation of a color that is between magenta and hot pink. Color Out of Space is based on the short story by H.P. Lovecraft. After a meteorite lands in the front yard of their farmstead, Nathan Gardner (Nicolas Cage) and his family find themselves battling a mutant extraterrestrial organism as it infects their minds and bodies, transforming their quiet rural life into a technicolor nightmare. Color Out of Space stars Nicolas Cage (Mandy, Leaving Las Vegas), Joely Richardson (The Rook, Nip/Tuck), Madeleine Arthur (Snowpiercer), Brendan Meyer (The OA), Julian Hilliard (The Haunting of Hill House), Elliot Knight (How to Get Away with Murder), with Q’orianka Kilcher (The New World) and Tommy Chong (Cheech & Chong). The film is directed by Richard Stanley (Hardware, Dust Devil). Colin Stetson, born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, spent a decade in San Francisco and Brooklyn honing his formidable talents as a horn player before eventually settling in Montreal in 2007. Over the years he has worked extensively with a wide range of bands and musicians, including Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver and The National. Stetson has developed an utterly unique voice as a soloist, principally on saxophone and clarinet. His astounding physical engagement with his instruments produces emotionally rich and polyphonic compositions that transcend expectations of what solo horn playing can sound like. He is at home in the avant-jazz tradition of pushing the boundaries through circular breathing and embouchure, and his noise/drone/minimalist sound encompasses genres like dark metal, post-rock and contemporary electronics. More recently, Stetson has focused on scoring a number of original soundtracks, including Lavender (2016), Hereditary (2018) and the Hulu seriesThe First (2018). The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to the Color Out of Space Soundtrack here and get the vinyl here. Listen to the official Colin Stetson Spotify playlist here. To learn more about Sony Soundtracks visit: https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Composers Sonya Belousova and Giona Ostinelli are the guests on this Score to Screen podcast. The duo reveal how the soundscape of The Witcher score features unique themes for each character and showcases sixty-four instruments from around the world. The hit Netflix series tells the story of Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, as he journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. Sonya and Giona remark, “The best part of scoring The Witcher is the constant stream of unlimited creative opportunities this unique and vast universe provides. We wrote and produced songs, folk tunes, dances, and score, collaborated with virtuoso soloists and phenomenal artists, recorded unique historical instruments, many of which were crafted specifically for The Witcher, as well as personally performed and recorded over sixty instruments in order to create over 8 hours of an exciting original soundtrack.” The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to The Witcher Soundtrack here. Listen to The Witcher Soundtrack playlist here. To learn more about Sony Soundtracks visit https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Actor Jos Slovick is the first featured guest on our Score to Screen podcast. Slovick provides a glimpse into his experience acting and singing in the film 1917, as well as recording the track “I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger” at Abbey Road Studios. The release of "I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger” follows the success of Thomas Newman’s critically acclaimed score for 1917. Towards the end of the film, Slovick appears as a British soldier singing the folk song to his fellow troops prior to battle. Slovick says, “1917 is an incredible film to be part of.  It felt like a special moment when we filmed that scene, and I’m so pleased it’s resonating with people. Recording the song at Abbey Road Studios was a dream come true.” Set at the height of the First World War, 1917 – directed by Sam Mendes  –  centers on two young British soldiers, Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman), who are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers – Blake’s own brother among them. The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to alternate versions of “I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger” here. Listen to the 1917 - Official Move Playlist here. Follow Sony Soundtracks: https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices