![]() He came, and it was his first ever recording session that he'd been to. Johnson had visited the recording sessions of the score at Eastwood Scoring Stage, saying " you get the stars and the producers wanting to come to recording sessions. The scoring session included large brass section, french hornes, trumpets, trombones, tubas, violins. It’s that pomp and circumstance, fanfare, very Brahms and Elgar, but with a contemporary beat to it, so that the audience felt, “Oh, well, we know these characters” even though a lot won't." īalfe experimented with the score by "matching the epic-ness of an orchestra" with contemporary beats. had been part of a TV show in the 1950s, for example. He said "I really wanted to try to make a theme for them that you felt was very nostalgic. īalfe wanted each characters have their own themes, but after getting introduced to five other characters, he felt it as "complicated" and wanted it to look for a bigger arc, and as those individual characters were looked as part of the Society, "being a unit and working as a team", which resulted in the Justice Society theme. He also created a father-son theme for Black Adam and his son. Balfe described the theme as "a pop song sans the lyrics". The Black Adam theme was originally a longer theme, and was much "overcomplicated", which Balfe altered it to suit the commercial sensibilities. He wanted a high school marching band to produce that theme, but could not do so due to their school vacation. He knew a band music is quite difficult due to "becoming patriotic and old-fashioned", hence he wanted to feel it as "a commercial track that you literally feel that you've heard before", due to the nature of the fanfare. Balfe thought of a marching football team band, for writing the Black Adam theme, inspiring Johnson's early-days of his sports career as a football player. The score for Black Adam was mostly inspired from Dwayne Johnson's off-screen and on-screen persona, as his characterisation is also a "part of the theme". So, don't rely too much on that." They collaborated remotely through Zoom in the pre-production, due to COVID-19 pandemic. Because the scripts change" and further added "I've been on films where the characters' names have changed, and the countries have changed. Balfe revealed the biggest thing that "uniquely appealed him" on Black Adam was the creative team involved - director Jaume Collet-Serra, producer Beau Flynn and executive producer Hiram Garcia - as he felt "you choose your projects because of the team, and not the scripts. He also scored for Marvel Studios' Black Widow (2021), based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. The film marked Lorne Balfe's first composition for a live-action DC film and his first film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) after previously writing additional music and assisting Hans Zimmer on Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy, and scoring The Lego Batman Movie (2017), an animated film based on the DC comics character Batman, although not a DCEU film. It was preceded by two singles – Black Adam and the Justice Society's themes, released on September 30 and October 5, respectively. The album features 43 tracks and was released by WaterTower Music on October 21, 2022. Black Adam (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the score album composed by Lorne Balfe, for the 2022 film Black Adam, based on the DC Comics character of the same name.
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