Wanted
Wanted
Action | Crime | Thriller
A frustrated office worker learns that he is the son of a professional assassin, and that he shares his father's superhuman killing abilities.
Starring Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman
Directed by Timur Bekmambetov
Produced by Mark Platt
Music by Danny Elfman
Additional music by David Reynolds and Debbie Lurie
Recorded at The Newman Scoring Stage, Los Angeles, CA
Danny Elfman is one of my film scoring heroes, so I was very excited when he hired me in to write additional music for Wanted. The first sequence I scored was an epic action sequence featuring our heroes Westley (James McAvoy) and Fox (Angelina Jolie) in a bullet-bending shootout with baddie Cross (Thomas Kretschmann) on a passenger train! Fox deliberately crashes her car into the train and mayhem ensues.
After that, I scored the iconic red car chase scene, where Fox (Angelina Jolie) lays out on the hood of a speeding Dodge Viper, steering the car through traffic with her foot as she shoots behind her at baddie Cross (again). In this movie director Timur Bekmambetov crafted some truly stunning action sequences. It was a thrill to score some of them!
Wanted - “Curving Bullets on a Train”
Musically this sequence was divided into numerous parts. Ultimately it was my responsibility to make it all work. The score combines some of Danny’s thematic elements within my own, enhancing all the action and creating a seamless audience experience.