Michael Giacchino (Up, Star Trek, Lost, Jurassic World, The Incredibles, Ratatouille) is teaming up with Nami Melumad (Absentia) to score the upcoming comedy An American Pickle. The film marks the feature solo directorial debut of cinematographer Brandon Trost and stars Seth Rogen, Maya Erskine and Sarah Snook. The movie revolves around an immigrant worker at a pickle factory who is accidentally preserved for a century and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. Simon Rich (Man Seeking Woman, Miracle Workers) wrote the screenplay. Rogen is also producing the Point Grey production with Evan Goldberg (This Is the End, The Interview) and James Weaver (Neighbors, The Disaster Artist). Giacchino has previously scored the 2011 feature 50/50 for the producers. An American Pickle is expected to be released in 2020 by Sony Pictures.
Giacchino’s upcoming projects also include Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit, which will premiere next month at the Toronto Film Festival before being released on October 18 by Fox Searchlight. Melumad continues to score Amazon’s Stana Katie-starring series Absentia, which will return for its third season in 2020.
1. Workin’ For Love in All the Wrong Places 2. New World Problems 3. A Greenbaum Family Reunion 4. Seltzer Your Soul 5. The Lonely Herschel Club 6. Klezmer Fight Club 7. Who Gives a Boop Bop 8. When the Greenbaum Breaks 9. Pickle Your Fancy 10. Revenge of the Ben 11. The Pickle Empire Strikes Back 12. The Fall and Rise of Herschel’s Twitter 13. The Herschel You Give 14. Yes You Canada 15. The Greenbaum Switcheroo 16. Schlepping to Schlupsk 17. Joining the Kaddish 18. Denouement to Be 19. The Silver Brining 20. Pickles, Suite or Sour
Available digitally Friday August 7th, so it's already for sale in some countries, IE
This ended up being one of my favorite scores of 2020, though 2020 wasn't exactly rich with great scores, and it's nowhere near my top Giacchinos overall.
Well worth a listen if any Giacchino fans haven't checked it out yet
