MICHAEL GIACCHINO

LAND OF THE LOST
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Music Composed by Michael Giacchino


Will Ferrell

Will Ferrell stars as has-been scientist Dr. Rick Marshall, sucked into a space-time vortex and spat back through time. Way back. Now, Marshall has no weapons, few skills and questionable smarts to survive in an alternate universe full of marauding dinosaurs and fantastic creatures from beyond our world—a place of spectacular sights and super-scaled comedy known as the Land Of The Lost. Sucked alongside him for the adventure are crack-smart research assistant Holly (Anna Friel) and a redneck survivalist (Danny McBride) named Will. Chased by T-Rex and stalked by painfully slow reptiles known as Sleestaks, Marshall, Will and Holly must rely on their only ally—a primate called Chaka (Jorma Taccone)—to navigate out of the hybrid dimension. Escape from this routine expedition gone awry and they’re heroes. Get stuck, and they’ll be permanent refugees in the Land Of The Lost.

Michael Giacchino, who knows a thing or two about time vortexs and otherworldly adventures, scores a third summer blockbuster, to follow in the wake of Star Trek and Up.

Universal Pictures opens Land Of The Lost nationwide on June 5.

Varèse Sarabande Catalog #: 302 066 975 2
Release Date: 06/09/09

Good news. Assume Disney will release Up - what's the release date?

Just to balance things up - I really like the Star Trek trailer music.

But it's good trailer music.

Nope, I think Up will definitely be the best.

I want Land of the Lost to be the best because I'm aching for some good old-fashioned rollicking adventure music !!!

The film is due out in early June. I haven't heard anything of it being recorded but I suppose it could be done.

Fair enough.

To be honest, I'm this close to coming to a similar conclusion re: the action music from this new STAR TREK score. (Ie. 'the action music of this score doesn't have anything special to differentiate it from the rest of the similar sounding Giacchino action music.') At least on the action front, Giacchino seems to have done all this before, minus the choir.

I'm not going to go there, but the list is long, and impressive.

I didn't say those scores were all of a piece. I said there's nothing particularly new here. Perhaps Giacchino is more likely to suffer from that than others, as all the war-based video game scores mean that there are very few tricks up his sleeve that he hasn't already used.

And I'm sure if I heard STAR TREK first, it wouldn't matter. But the world doesn't work that way.

Really? I love him, but "diverse" isn't an adjective I would use. Indeed, both he and my other favourite "younger" composer, Desplat, seem to have very particular models which they apply to almost everything. The same has been true of many great film composers in the past (a 2004 Elmer Bernstein score is very similar to a 1954 Elmer Bernstein score) so this isn't necessarily a problem, but when you look at the range of the first 20-30 scores of people like Goldsmith or Morricone, I think the "diverse" description is a little off the mark. Maybe that's just me, though?

Agree! I would also add John Barry who was incredibly diverse until he went all Out Of Africa.

Absolutely. There are beautiful subtleties there. But musically-speaking, they're mostly cut from similar cloth; he's just skilful enough to make his sound fit the particular requirements. You couldn't imagine him moving from a Sand Pebbles to A Patch of Blue, I guess is what I was saying.

I agree with that. Although the jump from GOLDEN COMPASS to L'ENNEMI INTIME was pretty impressive.