Michael Giacchino has been hired to score the upcoming Aardman CGI-animation Arthur Christmas. The film envisions Santa’s workshop as a high-tech industrial plant dedicated to getting all those toys out to every child in a single night. The movie directed by Barry Cook (Mulan) is scheduled to come out in November 2011 by Sony Pictures. The previous Aardman features had scores by John Powell (Chicken Run), Harry Gregson-Williams (Chicken Run, Flushed Away) and Julian Nott (Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit).
As previously reported, Giacchino is also slated to score the Andrew Stanton-directed John Carter of Mars and he is currently scoring the last few remaining episodes of the TV show Lost.
