Over the many years, Michael Giacchino has cemented himself as one of many greatest music composers round, due to Misplaced, the Star Trek reboot movies, and The Incredibles, and plenty more. You’ve heard his music a lot lately, and now you’ll get to see him tackle directing duties for Marvel.
Giacchino has signed on to direct Marvel’s upcoming (and nonetheless untitled) Halloween special that at present solely has Gael Garcia Bernal and The Nevers’ Laura Donnelly revealed as a part of its solid. Little or no is thought in regards to the particular itself, aside from it’s believed to focus Werewolf by Evening, who typically hangs across the extra supernatural corners of the Marvel universe and first appeared in a comic book with Moon Knight. (You’ll have heard of him.) The one-hour particular is anticipated to start filming later this month for a launch timed round Halloween, adopted by a Guardians of the Galaxy particular for the winter holidays.
Whereas Giacchino’s had lots expertise composing music for Marvel—he did the unique Physician Unusual, in addition to all three MCU Spider-Man motion pictures and this summer season’s Thor: Love & Thunder—he’s additionally directed a handful of instances. In 2018, he directed, wrote, and scored the brief movie Monster Problem, and later directed a brief for Star Trek the next 12 months. It’s at present unknown if Giacchino can even deal with the particular’s rating.
Having Giacchino on to direct the particular is attention-grabbing, each as a result of it’s not one thing many composers do, and likewise due to the character concerned. Whereas most comedian followers could know of Werewolf by Evening’s unique incarnation of Jack Russell, a extra trendy model of the obscure hero arrived in Marvel’s four-part Werewolf by Evening miniseries in 2020 from writers Taboo and Benjamin Jackendoff and artist Scott Eaton. The brand new Werewolf was an adolescent named Jake Gomez born together with his powers and who discovered he may rework at any time primarily based on his feelings, and used music to maintain in management. With music being a key part of the character, and a musician readily available to direct, it could give some clues as to what to anticipate from the Halloween particular as we start to be taught extra about it.
[through The Hollywood Reporter]
Questioning the place our RSS feed went? You may pick the new up one here.
G/O Media could get a fee
