Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the dramatic thriller Captain Phillips. The album features the film’s original score composed by Henry Jackman (Wreck-It-Ralph, X-Men: First Class). The soundtrack will be released on October 15, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Captain Phillips is directed by Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, United 93) and stars Tom Hanks in the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. Catherine Keener is co-starring in the film, which will be released nationwide on October 11 by Sony Pictures. To learn more about the drama, visit the official movie website.
Here’s the album track list:
1. Choose Your Crew (1:36)
2. Maersk Alabama (2:42)
3. This Is Not A Drill (5:42)
4. Second Attack (4:53)
5. I’m The Captain Now (3:44)
6. Do We Have A Deal? (2:09)
7. Entering The Lifeboat (2:46)
8. Uss Bainbridge (2:07)
9. End This Peacefully (2:43)
10. Failed Attempt (:56)
11. Two In The Water (4:19)
12. Seals Inbound (:23)
13. Negotiation (1:23)
14. Initiate The Tow (2:17)
15. High-Speed Maneuvers (2:03)
16. Safe Now (3:12)
Great mood music throughout … but why oh why is it the background music always LOUD !!! You guys are the REAL professionals in this game; and we, the movie-going/TV watching public are eternally in your debt; BUT we would love you all the more if you could just tone it DOWN more than a fraction.
“the urgent, pulsating music does an important job, too. There is a great story about Alfred Hitchcock who, when making his 1944 film ‘Lifeboat’, felt that the orchestral soundtrack was much too loud and intrusive. So he sent a curt note to the studio’s music department head, telling him people in the cinema would wonder where on earth all that music was coming from in the middle of the ocean …” Quite. http://tinyurl.com/loxcf7l
I don’t agree at all. I’m a big fan of original scores and I like when the music is very audible in a movie. Some great scores look so tiny behind the VFX and it’s such a frustration for me (like some great moments in Man Of Steel that were just buried in the mix). You make me want to watch this movie even more!
Music far too loud, dickhead!!