Joseph Trapanese (Oblivion, Shadow and Bone, The Greatest Showman, Lady and the Tramp, Straight Outta Compton, The Raid: Redemption) is the new composer of the Netflix original series The Witcher. He has recently been scoring the second season of the show created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich based on the book series by Andrzej Sapkowski and starring Henry Cavill, Freya Allan, Anya Chalotra, MyAnna Buring, Mimî M Khayisa, Anna Shaffer, Mahesh Jadu, Eamon Farren, Joey Batey and Royce Pierreson. Season 2 continues the story of Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, as he journeys toward his destiny. Hissrich returns as the drama’s showrunner and is also executive producing the project with Tomek Baginski, Jason F. Brown & Sean Daniel (The Expanse, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark), Mike Ostrowski, Steve Gaub and Jarosław Sawko. Sonya Belousova & Giona Ostinelli have composed the music for the first season of the series. Season 2 of The Witcher will premiere on December 17, 2021 exclusively on Netflix.
As previously reported, Trapanese’s other upcoming projects include the features Escape from Spiderhead, 8-Bit Christmas and To What Remains.
I have nothing against Trapanese, but this is an absolutely shitty thing to do on the showrunners’ part. The first season’s score was awesome, establishing good themes and a distinctive sound. I’m baffled by this decision of switching a winning team.
I listen to the score of 1st season on a daily basis and I’m in love with it.
Sadly the second season did not introduce a single memorable melody!
just listened to the score, wow burn witcher burn seriously the worst sh*t Ive ever heard, so cringe.