Michael Giacchino

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You can also listen to it on YouTube Music and YouTube. I just did, and it sounds fantastic!

So, I've recently started putting some MCU music on my drive to work, and that reminded me of a thought that's been on my mind for a while.

Compared to other superhero franchises like Superman, Batman or the X-Men, many of the heroes of the MCU didn't have a recognizable musical theme. The only noteworthy exception is Spider-Man, but that's due to the overwhelming amount of film and tv adaptations of the character.

So, with that in mind, I started to think which were the more iconic MCU themes, and the surprise was that other than Spider-Man, Ant-Man, Agents of SHIELD, Black Panther, and Avengers themes were the ones I remembered. However, some recent projects such as Wandavision or Moon Knight have managed to be more memorable scorewise.

My personal hypothesis as to why this is that although the movie scores are not by any means bad, they tend to not be as cohesive or interconnected from film to film, like how Iron Man 3 has an all new theme for the hero.

So, I'd be curious to know, which MCU heroes' musical themes do you remember most? And do you guys believe there is an issue regarding the memorableness of the themes?

For me I want to see 2 things:

1- The sequel to this year's Werewolf By Night: People loved this year's special and can't wait to see more of the characters, and see them interact with characters from the larger MCU like Moon Knight, or maybe even Spider-Man! The plot could be like: One year after his escape from the Bloodstone family, Jack Russell/Werewolf By Night infiltrated society and lives a life like any other. But when his blood-thirsty alter ego awakens at night, Jack has to go on the run for the government, meeting new allies and facing new threats, while he searches for his old friend: Man-Thing. There could be some difficulties, but I'm sure if they put Michael Giacchino back on the job, it could be something epic!

2- Tomb of Dracula: Time for another classic! They could do the same plot as in the 1972 comic: Frank Drake, the descendant of Count Dracula, has inherited the Count's castle. With a plan to turn the castle into a tourist hot-spot, Frank sets out for Transylvania. But something dark lurks in the bowels of Castle Dracula! Just the same style as Werewolf By Night, but again, something different!

Alan Silvestri may have composed both Captain America: The First Avenger and Marvel's The Avengers Assemble before returning to score both Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, but Brian Tyler and Danny Elfman's score for Avengers: Age of Ultron really began the stronger sense of continuity in themes that the franchise has otherwise struggled with, as Elfman evolved the Avengers themes by combining them and the new material created for that film into each other as if they were one, and Tyler reprised his themes for both Iron Man and Thor from his scores to both Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World, respectively, as well as Silvestri's Captain America themes from Captain America: The First Avenger, and, while brief and quick due to the action sequences, Craig Armstrong's Hulk themes from The Incredible Hulk. The only previously established themes that Silvestri reprised when he scored both Marvel's The Avengers Assemble and Infinity War (outside of the Avengers themes as he initially established them in the latter film) were his Captain America theme and Tesseract motif (which later turned out to be the Infinity Stones' motif), and although he expanded on that in Endgame to reference other characters' and concepts' materials, it still didn't quite reach the more dynamic levels that Brian Tyler and Danny Elfman did for Age of Ultron. Given the studio's unfortunate indifference towards continuity, I guess it shouldn't be surprising if Silvestri returned the next two films, but Tyler and Elfman's example is great that it'd be awesome to see them return for it. Otherwise, given his work on Doctor Strange, this franchise's Spider-Man films, and Thor: Love and Thunder with Nami Melumad, Michael Giacchino seems to have become the other favorite composer these days. Obviously, we don't know yet as they haven't yet announced who the composer(s) will be, but the idea of who'll compose the score keeps piquing my interests due to both my ear and love for music and my drumming ability. Overall, I just hope it'll be someone who'll acknowledge continuity.

Since Peter Parker is taking to heart the advice that he received from his two other-dimensional counterparts in how he'll continue his superheroic career - not to also mention, of course, that his new suit combines the design of his original suit from Stark and the designs of his counterparts' suits - perhaps Michael Giacchino could help his M.C.U. Spider-Man themes evolve by incorporating both them and what James Horner and Danny Elfman respectively created for their respective Spider-Film series' scores into each other, as if they were one and the same. After Giacchino gave token quotes of those two composers' respective Spider-Themes in his score for Spider-Man: No Way Home, in addition to continuing his own material for the character, it seems to make at least sense, as such a combination could musically suggest how he's matured and the kind of direction that he's now taking his heroic career into since then. It just probably won't happen, though, since he's just content on playing it safe by staying firmly in his own musical sensibilities and comfort zone.

https://thedisinsider.com/2022/02/22/michael-giacchino-tapped-to-direct-marvels-werewolf-by-night-series/

Michael Giacchino is such a GOAT.