Junkie XL’s GODZILLA VS KONG Score Bangs Planet’s Biggest Bass Drum
Mike Sprague
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Mad Max: Fury Road composer Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL has been hard at work on Adam Wingard’s epic monster mash Godzilla vs Kong for a while now.
And today he talked about how he wanted the biggest bass drum on the planet for this score. Specifically, he wanted an eight-to-ten foot bass drum … but that turned out to be impossible … so the production team settled for the biggest one possible.
Mr. XL says: “On Godzilla vs Kong, I said, ‘I think I need the biggest bass drum on the planet for this score. I know the guy who can build it. What do you think?’.”
He adds: “I’m such a Godzilla freak. I have all the Japanese versions of the movies. At a certain point, just for sh-ts and giggles, I wrote something for Godzilla. About two years ago, I met the director because he showed interest in me as a composer. I asked him, ‘Do you know I’m the biggest Godzilla fan on the planet, and, years ago, I wrote some stuff.’ He was like, ‘You’re kidding me?’ So we started communicating, I tweaked what I did, played it for him, and he was totally in love.”
The film stars Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Shun Oguri, Eiza González, Jessica Henwick, Julian Dennison, Kyle Chandler, and Demián Bichir and takes place in a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle for the ages. As Monarch embarks on a perilous mission into uncharted terrain and unearths clues to the Titans’ origins, a human conspiracy threatens to wipe the creatures, both good and bad, from the face of the earth forever.
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