Narnia Co-Composer Andrew Wyatt on “Exciting” Soundtrack
Narnia co-composer Andrew Wyatt has said that people are going to “really dig” the soundtrack for Greta Gerwig’s upcoming adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew, in a recent interview with People Magazine.
I can’t really speak too much about it because it’s [in the] very, very early days […] It’s exciting. I think a lot of people are going to be happy, I think people are going to really dig it.
Andrew Wyatt
Wyatt, who is composing the Narnia soundtrack alongside fellow Barbie collaborator Mark Ronson, made the comments at the Los Angeles premiere of Avatar: Fire & Ash, a film for which he and Ronson also produced a song.
Wyatt also mentioned that, much like Ronson, the Narnia books were ones that he grew up with and cherishes:
I think I read The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe to my first grade class … and I know the story and I love the story. And Greta of course is [doing it] in her own way and it’s going to be different.”
Andrew Wyatt
Notably, these comments were made several days before IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond revealed the film would feature a soundtrack with “unbelievably contemporary music” which he likened to the rock bands Pink Floyd and The Doors.
Despite Gelfond’s promises however, Wyatt indicated that they had only just started working on the score, and that there was still a lot of work to be done:
“[It’s] going to keep us nice and busy for the next eight or nine months.”
Andrew Wyatt
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Fans are going to “really dig” the soundtrack – What fans? C.S. Lewis/Narnia fans?
Also more confusion about which book they’re adapting. MN or LWW, both or seperate? But I guess it doesn’t matter. They’re changing everything that was cannon for 70+ years. I don’t really care anymore.
Feel free to take any of this personally. I don’t mind.
Not to be that person , but hope you are aware that Greta played modern pop songs on the set of Little Women, during the dance sequences, which were overlayed with classical score, by Alexander Desplat. And Richard Gelfond went onto the NARNIA set during filming,
@Alex Anar – that thought had crossed my mind, given that they did the exact same thing on Prince Caspian, where they played Kanye West on the set for the scene where Peter strides out for the duel.
However, I think once you factor in Amy Pascal’s original “rock n roll” quote, Mark Ronson’s general musical vibe, and the fact that everyone involved in the production has been talking about this project as a bold reinvention from day one, I think its hard not to take Gelfond’s quotes reasonably at face value.
@icarus Again , Greta has used that phrase to describe cinematography by yorick Le saux https://youtu.be/3–_qcpMFUE?si=4GlDokizKmuVW2M4
I think there is an image of Greta as this edgy director, when she is deeply vanilla (complimentary) I say this as a Greta fan, she is not Harmony Korine or Oliver Laxe. On face value her films are deeply conventional studio films, I say this as fan. So I fear the Greta movie in most pple heads is far more provocative than the one to come.
@Alex Anar I kinda agree with what some of what Alex Anar is saying. As Andrew Wyatt mentioned, they are in the early stages of the song writing so Greta will occasionally have to check back on them every now and then on the sound of the songs / score given the 8 to 9 month period as she is editing the film to show them and them figuring out how to structure it. I saw from somewhere I believe when Billie Eilish made her song in Barbie she started around January 2023 when the movie premiere July 2023 as she sounded like she was the last to be added on the list, so if we are really setting the stage right now they must be currently working on the score or something, while the adding of artists to make the song might not be there until January or February of next year, so the songs/ score might be done either during to late summer time.
Like Alex Anar mentioned how “Greta played modern pop songs on the set of Little Women, during the dance sequences, which were overlayed with classical score, by Alexander Desplat”, it is possible most of the sounds or whatever is used on set is an improv to what tone the key players need to emote.
Also, kinda weird in a serendipity way that those working on the film have some form of connections to Narnia when they were young like some requirement before joining the film.
Anyway, hope to see the trailer/teaser soon.
Now what will these two come up with…