Platoon will release the original soundtrack for Apple Original Films’ Wolfs (Movie Trailer) on Friday, September 20th. The action comedy, directed by Jon Watts, stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt as two rival fixers who cross paths when they’re both called in to help cover up a prominent New York official’s misstep. Over one explosive night, they set aside their petty grievances–and their egos–to finish the job. The film’s score was written by Emmy winning film and TV composer Theodore Shapiro, known for his impressive body of work featuring productions including “Severance,” starring Adam Scott, Meryl Streep’s “The Devil Wears Prada”, “The Eyes of Tammy Fae” with Jessica Chastain, and Bill Murray’s “St. Vincent,” to name a very few.
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“When writing any score,” shares Shapiro, “I like to assemble a good list of ingredients. For the score to ‘Wolfs’, Jon Watts had a fascinating combination of ideas that formed the ingredient list. He wanted a largely electronic score. But he also wanted the music to have subtle reflections of Carl Stalling’s music for Looney Tunes cartoons. And he wanted the kind of bold colors that might have a tinge of a spaghetti western feeling, plus a variety of strange percussion sounds. Those ingredients form the sound of ‘Wolfs’. The score features the cimbalom, an Eastern European stringed instrument that is struck with hammers; a variety of vintage synthesizers; a host of odd percussion; and also subtle gestures that cling to the action the way a cartoon score might. It is an unusual concoction but one that hopefully captures the essence of Jon’s singular vision.”
Shapiro is like a character actor, putting on different musical costumes and adopting accents to disappear into roles much like Chastain in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” which he scored with rays of churchy sunshine that belied hidden sadness—or like the women of Fox News in “Bombshell,” a score that weaponized female vocals to tell the story of their revolt. He pulled a jazzy con with Gene Hackman in Heist, accentuated the tyranny of Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada,” made the tears flow in “Marley & Me,” and found the humanity in an incorrigible Murray in “St. Vincent.” One of his darkest scores to date was for Karyn Kusama’s police drama, “Destroyer,” starring Nicole Kidman—which The A.V. Club described as “knife-on bone.”
For more than two decades, Shapiro has been solving cinematic puzzles both light and dark. He scored some of Hollywood’s classic comedies—including “Idiocracy,” “Old School,” “Tropic Thunder,” and “Dodgeball”—with regular collaborators such as Paul Feig, Todd Phillips, and Jay Roach. He’s also cracked the code of political dramas (the Emmy-nominated “Game Change,” “Trumbo”), adventures both animated (“Spies in Disguise”), and unconventional (“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”), as well as sexy, stylish mysteries (“A Simple Favor”).
“Whether it’s coming up with the right melodic material, or instrumental choices, or even just solving individual cues and how to tell the story in the best way,” he says, “that just fascinates me, and I love the challenge of it, and I love the process of it. It’s really that part of my person that loves to decode things and work out these problems that drives my creative process, and makes my job really fun.”
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