Michael Giacchino (Spider-Man: No Way Home, Lost, Jurassic World, Star Trek, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Doctor Strange, War for the Planet of the Apes) has recently been scoring Pixar Animation Studios’ upcoming feature Lightyear. The film is directed by Angus MacLane and stars Chris Evans in the title role. The sci-fi action adventure tells the origin story of Buzz Lightyear – the hero who inspired the toy – introducing the legendary Space Ranger who would win generations of fans. Galyn Susman (Toy Story 4) is producing the project. Giacchino has previously collaborated with MacLane on Pixar’s 2013 TV special Toy Story of Terror. He also scored the Toy Story That Time Forgot special, as well as Pixar’s features The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Cars 2, Up, Inside Out, Coco and The Incredibles 2. Lightyear will be released in theaters nationwide on June 17, 2022 by Walt Disney Pictures.
Wonder why they didn't just go with Randy Newman, he hasn't retired has he?
Because the director's previous directorial work is a Toy Story short scored by Michael Giacchino
and also this is not a film about the Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story franchise, but about the astronaut/space ranger (a fictional character in the fictional Toy Story world) that inspired the toy line. In a word, it is a spin-off, so it makes sense to use a different composer
Wonder why they didn't just go with Randy Newman, he hasn't retired has he?
Because the director's previous directorial work is a Toy Story short scored by Michael Giacchino
and also this is not a film about the Buzz Lightyear (the toy voiced by Tim Allen) in Toy Story franchise, but about the astronaut/space ranger (a fictional character in the fictional Toy Story world) that inspired the toy line. In a word, it is a spin-off, so it makes sense to use a different composer
Yeah, I really like Newman, his Cars 3 score is just a massive terrific score.
But I am not sure he is a right fit for a movie that looks mostly set in space either. I have a feeling that Angus MacLane might have wanted a break from the more comedic toward something related to epic space scores. Whatever you feel about MG, he has more background with that genre material, so it makes a certain amount of sense.
Michael Giacchino (Spider-Man: No Way Home, Lost, Jurassic World, Star Trek, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Doctor Strange, War for the Planet of the Apes) has recently been scoring Pixar Animation Studios’ upcoming feature Lightyear. The film is directed by Angus MacLane and stars Chris Evans in the title role. The sci-fi action adventure tells the origin story of Buzz Lightyear – the hero who inspired the toy – introducing the legendary Space Ranger who would win generations of fans. Galyn Susman (Toy Story 4) is producing the project. Giacchino has previously collaborated with MacLane on Pixar’s 2013 TV special Toy Story of Terror. He also scored the Toy Story That Time Forgot special, as well as Pixar’s features The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Cars 2, Up, Inside Out, Coco and The Incredibles 2. Lightyear will be released in theaters nationwide on June 17, 2022 by Walt Disney Pictures.
I don’t know about this Giacchino, he’s not good at developing themes and skipped his symphony structure classes and really needs to make more of his own music like a sci-fi concept album with spoken word elements and looking at his whole music library I just don’t know if he can do it. Meanwhile Williams may not be the conductor that I thought he was according to a holiday-sweater-wearing man, I just don’t know anymore!!!
