![]() Furthermore, the score could provide an epic sense of scale. The music could also support the tension coming from threats both inside and outside the bunker. We knew the music could help the audience follow the main character Michelle on her journey of discovery, and provide an emotional core to the story. During this extended preproduction phase, I had long talks with Dan about our goals for the score. I was hired early, before the film was even cast, giving me over a year and a half to develop ideas. Any filmmaker who drops Ennio Morricone’s Two Mules for Sister Sara into the first five minutes of conversation is going to win me over, fast. We nerded out about our favorite film scores and composers. Though 10 Cloverfield Lane would be his first feature, I was already a huge fan of his work, having loved Portal: No Escape, his memorable and impressive short based on the beloved videogame franchise. When I met director Dan Trachtenberg, I felt like I had known him for years. I immediately saw the potential for a fantastic film, and was so excited I couldn’t sleep. I was riveted by the taut storytelling, and kept guessing at every turn. The script was bound in enigmatic red cover pages with the iconic robot on the front, hand-delivered in a sealed envelope. My journey on this film began nearly two years ago. Scoring 10 Cloverfield Lane was both a creative and personal revelation, and I’m thrilled to finally share my experiences collaborating with some of the most artistically energizing individuals in the entertainment industry. Produced by Bad Robot and Paramount, this film burst on to the scene last month with a new trailer and Super Bowl commercial, and has since electrified fan speculation. The film tells the story of Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a young woman who wakes up after a terrible accident to find she’s locked in a cellar with a doomsday prepper named Howard (John Goodman), who insists that he saved her life and that the world outside is uninhabitable following an apocalyptic catastrophe. This weekend marks the theatrical release of 10 Cloverfield Lane, the critically-acclaimed new thriller from producer J.J. Fortunately, everything worked out for the best. The meeting at Bad Robot would have to wait. When the meeting was set, I knew there was only one event that could prevent me from attending, and that event was about to happen. Fighting off claustrophobia induced by my breath against the mask and anxiety ringing in my ears, I struggled to type an email on my phone to two producers at Bad Robot with whom I was scheduled to meet that very afternoon, about the possibility of scoring an exciting new thriller for them. The hall was eerily quiet, despite the crescendo of flurrying activity on the other side of the heavy doors. On June 2nd, 2014, I sat alone wearing scrubs and a hospital mask, in a corridor outside a labor and delivery room. ![]()
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