We recently had talked to Terminator composer, Brad Fiedel, and he told us that he had not been asked to score the latest instalment to the Terminator franchise. Now we have official confirmation on who is going to score Terminator 6…
The Hollywood Reporter have announced that Tom Holkenborg (AKA Junkie XL)- who composed the score for Mad Max: Fury Road, and most recently Alita: Battle Angel,- which was produced by James Cameron, is set to score the music for Terminator: Dark Fate.
Tom Holkenborg has worked with Terminator: Dark Fate director Tim Miller previously on Deadpool, and had nothing but kind words to say about the T6 director, and Terminator creator James Cameron.
He said:
“It’s great to be working on another project with Tim, The original Terminators were such iconic movies, and having James back as a producer with Tim directing is an amazing dream-team. It’s going to be a fantastic movie to be part of.”
Tom Holkenborg
We at TheTerminatorFans.com have had Terminator Fans across our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube, discussing for months who they believed would be scoring Terminator: Dark Fate, and Mr. Holkenborg was definitely in the top three, along with Hans Zimmer and Brad Fiedel but this is very interesting (and telling?) news for Terminator Fans, as it suggests an almost complete shift from the first two Terminator movies with the musical direction.
Unless Holkenborg aims to emulate Brad Fiedel’s legendary Terminator sound.
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Source: Hollywood Reporter
15 Comments
Oh shit!
Not Fiedel?!…
This is a bad idea , fu**k!!!
nothing good will happen, “trust me!”
He did the score for Mad Max: Fury Road… he will do it justice. Do some research before you jump on the shitfest bandwagon.
I am fucking in…..his stuff on Fury Road and Deadpool were amazing(I haven’t seen Alita:Battle Angel) he can defitenely handle Fiedel’s style and make something unique
I think he’s a great second choice. The music he did for Deadpool was awesome.
Excellent choice! I’m thrilled. His work on Mad Max Fury Road and Deadpool is absolutely outstanding. Moody. Atmospheric. Visceral. Pulsing. Throbbing. Tense. Compelling. I firmly believe this is the best choice next to the great Brad Fiedel. I was not pleased at all with the soundtracks of T3 and Genisys. Sure, those composers are ultra-talented but the scores reminded me of a thousand other orchestral-based soundtracks. Generic and sonically bland. But Junkie XL is reminiscent of Fiedel and T2 in some respects while still creating his own identifiable soundscape and employing a symphonic element at junctures of a film. If you doubt his ability to channel Fiedel, listen to ”Immortan’s Citadel,” “Spikey Car” and “Chapter Doof” from Mad Max. Beautiful, throat-grabbing work. And Deadpool features the pulse-whipping tracks of “Maximum Effort,” “Twelve Bullets” and “Man in a Red Suit.” Whoever chose Junkie XL, THANK YOU for getting it right!
As long they can capture the ‘avant-garde’ metal samples of T2 and don’t jump into classic orchestra and overlayered soundeffects’ i think that worst could have been picked… he’s not a bad cat around
J’espére qu’il va garder le theme officiel de la music Terminator et non pas inventer une autre partition sinon sa change et c’est plutôt interessant !
If he’s following in Brad’s footsteps, then the best we can hope for is that he will be a “pretender.”
Terminator fans wanted Brad, purely and simply. To not get him shows a disconnect between the fans and the filmmakers and it shows that the filmmakers still haven’t learned what failed the last three films.
It’s bad news because it speaks to an ignorance that the people in charge have failed to correct.
As I said, the best we can hope for is that XL will approach the soundscape as if he is imitating Brad.
I agree…
Although Hans Zimmer surprised me in the past before with an ost for Blade Runner 2029 that can considered equal to what Vangelis had created. Vangelis shaped basicaly an unique sound in 1983. I can see Junkie XL ‘imittate’ but also rather ‘experimentate’ with the content. He has a background in electronic music and sampling.
I feel that lack of content comes from what we saw so far that indicates a large scale CGI movie with too many characters… as a composer you couldn’t be able to create unique moments like this… T2 was all about discconecting and alienation within the story and subthemes… Brad Fiedel felt with other words wich content he had to support… everything relies on what Miller is cooking in my opinion. Junkie XL is not a bad choice.
I think Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross should have been the first pick. They have probably the best set where the music doens’t overflow commercialy ( please get rid of a goddamn classical orchestra) and they keep it lowkey as can create tensions in action as explore the psychology of the character so fine.
Everything depends on how the story and image is played out. If they want a CGI dominant movie and Marvelesque showdown… that will effect pretty much how the film will sound.
Gosh… why after T2 terminators wasn’t scary, deep or simply straightforward and eerie realistic on many paints…
Dear Miller… the blueprints were set in 1984 and 1991… please keep it that way!
Excellent news. ‘Brothers in Arms’ from Mad Max Fury Road is one of the single greatest action cues in modern cinema. I am happy!
Get rid of the standard and boring orchestra. And make really new science fiction sounds. Just like how Brad Fiedel was creative with combining metallic sounds with really sensitive and beautiful melody.
Hans Zimmer could be an excellent second choice.
After watching this clip, a possible authentic Terminator theme by Tom Holkenberg started to grow on me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5hgQTEf0mg (pin on 7:55 / 1:40 / 2:46 / 6:50 ).
His studio is built for tracking and vintage sounds. So maybe… we might get what we want…
This is easily the best choice of composer they have had since T1 and T2…..I’ve never been happy with the choices since then but this one I think will be great….it seemed obvious to me early on that he would be the pick as he has worked on Deadpool and Alita, good to see it actually happen.