Christopher McQuarrie has confirmed on Twitter that Lorne Balfe is composing the music for the upcoming action sequel Mission: Impossible – Fallout. The film is directed by McQuarrie and stars Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Cavill, Michelle Monaghan, Alec Baldwin, Vanessa Kirby, Sian Brooke, Angela Bassett and Sean Harris. McQuarrie and Cruise are also producing the Bad Robot and Skydance Media production with J. J. Abrams & Bryan Burk (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Trek, Lost), David Ellison & Dana Goldberg (The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Altered Carbon) & Don Granger (Jack Reacher). Balfe has previously scored Skydance’s Terminator Genisys and Geostorm and had been attached to score the sixth Mission: Impossible film since last year. Joe Kraemer has composed the music for McQuarrie’s last Mission: Impossible movie Rogue Nation, while the other parts in the series were scored by Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer and Michael Giacchino. Mission: Impossible – Fallout will be released on July 27, 2018 by Paramount Pictures.

  1. Justin says:

    And before anybody goes on about Joe, he wasn’t even asked to score this film — according to him on Twitter.

    • Bernd-Helmut Heine says:

      A real shame! His score for M:I-5 was the best of the whole series (for now). I really had high hopes for Kraemer´s return to the franchise…

  2. Kerry Frey says:

    Joe Kraemer’s song Solomon Lane from Rogue Nation is one of the best in the series, hands down. That said, still look forward to what Lorne will do with what looks like a fun story.

  3. BB says:

    What the fuck! Joe Kraemer did a wonderful job on the last movie and will be replaced by this Zimmer clone?

  4. Brian says:

    Excellent news . Balfe is a fantastic composer and great to see him finally getting a big movie .

  5. AntonP says:

    Balfe is the most diverse composer out there . The extreme music fans seem mad about Kraemer not doing it but what’s best for the movie is important

  6. PPT says:

    If Balfe is so bad as some film music fans say , then wise does he get so much work ? We haven’t even heard the score but yet on some forums people are already destroying it !!! Genius and the Crown have been his best writing yet

    • Jeff T. says:

      Agree, his score for Genius in particular has been really good! Every single one his big live action projects so far has been a problem movie with composers being replaced (Geostorm, Ghost in the Shell, Terminator, Pacific Rim) and it sounds like on this one he has been on board from the beginning, so let’s what he does with it, I think he might just surprise some people!

  7. BB says:

    Oh, yeah… Lorne Balfe is a “excelent” (many quotes here) composer… Your scores from Hurricane Heist and the last Pacific Rim are brilhant (contains sarcasm)

    Are you a bunch of deaf people?

    Rogue Nation is better than twenty scores this guy is capable of!

    “Balfe is a fantastic composer and great to see him finally getting a big movie.”

    Of course … Having help from Hans Zimmer, who does not get a “big movie”?

    After all, Pacific Rim, Hurricane Heist, Lego Batman, Ghost in the Shell, are all “small movies”, right?

  8. Antonio says:

    BB can you please explain if he is so bad as you say …… why does he get work and Kraemer does not ?

  9. Antonio says:

    BB always ha an issue with Balfe !!!!! Balfe is obviously talented and he is always working so he can’t be that bad . I’m looking forward to this score.He is versatile
    and looking forward to what twist he has to the theme

  10. I liked Michael Giacchino’s score in MI: Ghost Protocol. Hope we will get good music from Lorne Balfe ??? I want this movie to be better than the Rogue Nation.

  11. BB says:

    Balfe is a Remote Control. That closes my case.

  12. CHarlesMusic says:

    what does being part of Remote Control got anything to do with it BB ?????

  13. BB says:

    All the musicians from this f***ing studio, only know how to do background music, without depth, without soul and, totally, forgettable!

    If Balfe is as good as you guys argue, why is the Terminator Genisys score so generic? Why can not I remember one melody that this guy made for this movie, or any other? The scores made by these guys are shallower than a saucer.

    Can he score as good as Krull? Psycho? The Magnificent Seven? Oh, James Horner, Herrmann and Bernstein are dead. Let’s balance the scales then.

    Can he score as good (from start to finish) like Superman, The Incredibles, or Thor – The Dark World?

    Ten years from now, no one will remember half the music this guy did. Like all RC scores, they will be forgotten.

    Balfe is one of those guys! He has no talent, and does not get to the feet of Kraemer, Giacchino or Elfman.

    The Fallout score will be as forgettable as your Hurricane Heist.

  14. Georgios Tsarouchas says:

    Mission: Impossible needs to have a score that is a bit “jazzy”, the same way Lalo Schfrin’s original score is. Danny Elfman had done an amazing job. Even Alan Silvestri’s rejected score was not bad at all. Giacchino and Kramer were also on the same page with this jazz sound. Jazz trumpets and jazz percussion is what I would expect.
    Zimmer in Mission: Impossible II kind of swayed away, but that movie was totally different as a whole in general.
    I am a bit worried now with Balfe, honestly speaking.. I would prefer Kramer to continue.. but.. let’s keep our fingers crossed. Who knows what they have in mind with regards to the film’s atmosphere.

    P.S.: There was a rumor many weeks ago that Henry Jackman would score, which, by the way would have been a far better choice (but possibly more expensive for the stuio)

  15. Georgios Tsarouchas says:

    Mission: Impossible needs to have a score that is a bit “jazzy”, the same way Lalo Schfrin’s original score is. Danny Elfman had done an amazing job. Even Alan Silvestri’s rejected score was not bad at all. Giacchino and Kramer were also on the same page with this jazz sound. Jazz trumpets and jazz percussion is what I would expect.
    Zimmer in Mission: Impossible II kind of swayed away, but that movie was totally different as a whole in general.
    I am a bit worried now with Balfe, honestly speaking.. I would prefer Kramer to continue.. but.. let’s keep our fingers crossed. Who knows what they have in mind with regards to the film’s atmosphere.

    P.S.: There was a rumor many weeks ago that Henry Jackman would score, which, by the way would have been a far better choice (but possibly more expensive for the studio)

  16. ItscoolIGuess says:

    I think Remote Control turned down BB’s resume. He’s harboring a lot of anger. He must hate Jackman, Powell, HGW, RGW, as well. Those guys are all terrible (contains sarcasm).

    • BB says:

      Yes Yes. I say I hate the Remote Control scores but in fact I LOVE to hear the same “melodies” coming from completely different, brilliantly talented composers, and who have their own identity (contains sarcasm)

  17. BB says:

    Composers of Remote Control, only know only one musical style, a single voice: the voice of the pathetic Hans Zimmer. Only the deaf who can not hear how identical all their tracks are. Balfe, Djawadi, Jablonsky, Andrew K, Zanelli, Junkie XL, RGW, all of them. Not everyone. John Powell was the only one who managed to escape this style.

    And not. It does not contain sarcasm.