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Posted: July 13, 2023

The Sony Music Masterworks release of SPIDER-MAN™: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (ORIGINAL SCORE) features music written by Daniel Pemberton for the second installment in the Oscar®-winning animated film trilogy. Pemberton returns to the franchise after scoring 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, a breakout hit with fans and critics alike who praised the composer’s orchestral-meets-electronic score for its breadth and expansiveness as well as its groundbreaking use of record scratching within a soundtrack. For the sequel, Pemberton has expanded his original soundscape to encompass new stories in the multiverse setting, incorporating everything from operatic tenor vocals and a 100-piece orchestra to Indian percussion, punk rock, techno drums, multi-layered electronics, detuned cellos, time-stretched beats and more. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse debuts exclusively in theaters today.

Of the soundtrack, composer DANIEL PEMBERTON says, “The Spider-Verse is the only place I can combine electronics, record scratching, an orchestra, a goose, a punk rock band, hip-hop beats, whistling and opera and have it not feel weird. As well as adapting and expanding on the musical themes and sounds of the first film, there is an avalanche of new sonics and motifs for all the characters and worlds, greatly expanding how this very unique universe sounds and connects together. Like everyone else involved with this incredible piece of cinema, I have tried to push the boundaries of what a superhero film score can be to hopefully create music like nothing you’ve heard before." 

ABOUT SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE 
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, Spider-Man™: Across the Spider-Verse. After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most. Anyone can wear the mask – it’s how you wear it that makes you a hero.

Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson. Written by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller & David Callaham. Based on the MARVEL COMICS. Produced by Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Christina Steinberg. Executive Producers Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Aditya Sood and Brian Michael Bendis. The film stars Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez, Jake Johnson, Jason Schwartzman, Issa Rae, Karan Soni, with Daniel Kaluuya and Oscar Isaac.


Pemberton also reveals which director's score was the most challenging to work on & getting to collaborate with Mick Jagger on the ‘Slow Horses’ theme

COLLIDER's TAMERA JONES writes….A film's score can make or break important emotional beats in a movie, and composer Daniel Pemberton is among the greats when it comes to film scores. Following the massive success of Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Collider’s Steve Weintraub got the chance to sit down with Pemberton during the Mediterrane Film Festival to pick his brain on everything from the inevitable influence of AI in entertainment to Michael Mann’s long-anticipated Heat 2 and composing the music for Ferrari in a week.

Pemberton began his career in television and skyrocketed when, for his second feature film ever, the composer worked alongside Ridley Scott on The Counselor—a favorite of Guillermo del Toro’s, he tells Weintraub. Since then, he’s gone on to earn an Emmy, multiple Golden Globe nominations, and an Academy Award nomination for his work on Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7. Other notable features you’ll hear Pemberton’s work on include The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Birds of Prey, and Ocean’s Eight.

During their conversation, Pemberton shares his thoughts on the pros and cons of AI within the industry and otherwise, working with Mick Jagger for Apple TV’s Slow Horses, the influences and Easter eggs to look out for in Across the Spider-Verse, what it’s like working with Guy Ritchie, and scoring Mann’s upcoming Ferrari, starring Adam Driver, in a week. For this and tons more, check out the full interview below.


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