Soundtrack - Jumani Welcome to The Jungle : the new Henry Jackman’s score

Par Mulder, 19 décembre 2017

Sony Music proudly announce the release of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), featuring music by Henry Jackman. The soundtrack to the new film by Jake Kasdan has been released on December 15th The film will be released in the US this friday.

In the brand-new adventure Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, the game has changed as four teenagers in detention are sucked into the world of Jumanji. When they discover an old video game console with a game they’ve never heard of, they decide to play and are immediately thrust into the game’s jungle setting, in the bodies of the avatar characters they chose (Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillan). What they discover is that you don’t just play Jumanji – Jumanji plays you. To win, they’ll have to go on the most dangerous adventure of their lives, or they’ll be stuck in the game forever… Directed by Jake Kasdan, the screenplay is by Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers and Scott Rosenberg & Jeff Pinkner with a screen story by Chris McKenna, based on the book Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg. The film is produced by Matt Tolmach and William Teitler.

Henry Jackman has established himself as one of today’s top composers by fusing his classical training and his experience as a successful record producer and creator of electronic music. His musical versatility ratcheted up the tension in Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips (earning him a BAFTA nomination), super-powered such comic book hits as X-Men: First Class and Captain America: Winter Soldier; kicked ass in Kingsman: The Secret Service and Kick-Ass; breathed life into legendary animated characters like Winnie the Pooh, Puss in Boots, Wreck-It Ralph, and Oscar-winner Big Hero 6. His most recent work can be heard in the sci-fi comedy Pixels, and the post-apocalyptic drama The Fifth Wave starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Marvels blockbuster hit Captain America: Civil War, Paramount Pictures action-packed sequel, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back starring Tom Cruise and Cobie Smulders and the adventure sequel from Warner Bros. Kong: Skull Island starring Brie Larson and Tom Hiddleston. His other diverse credits include the animated features Monsters vs. Aliens and Turbo, period drama Henri 4, family adventure Gulliver’s Travels (starring Jack Black), crime thriller Man on a Ledge, horror fantasy Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and the Seth Rogen / James Franco comedies This is the End and (the firestorm sensation) The Interview. Jackman grew up in the southeast of England, where he began composing his first symphony at the age of six. He studied classical music at Oxford and sang in the St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir but simultaneously got involved in the underground rave scene and began producing popular electronica music and dance remixes, eventually working with artists such as Seal and The Art of Noise. In 2006 he caught the attention of film composers Hans Zimmer and John Powell, and began writing additional music for Zimmer and Powell on Kung Fu Panda and then for Zimmer on The Dark Knight, The Da Vinci Code, and The Pirates of the Caribbean films, which rapidly led to scoring blockbuster films on his own.

The track list of Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is as follows:
01 - The Jumanji Overture
02 - Digging Up the Past
03 - Brantford High
04 - Into the Jungle
05 - Out of Character
06 - The Legend of the Jewel
07 - The Adventure Begins
08 - Special Abilities
09 - The Bikers
10 - Van Pelt
11 - A Test of Friendship
12 - The Bazaar
13 - Snake Charmer
14 - The Power of Bravestone
15 - Seaplane McDonough
16 - The Missing Piece
17 - Lost in Time
18 - Flirting With Danger
19 - Albino Rhinos
20 - Retrieving the Emerald
21 - Out of Lives
22 - First Kiss
23 - The Jaguars
24 - Ring of Fire
25 - Begin the Climb
26 - Call Out Its Name
27 - Leaving Jumanji
28 - An Older Friend
29 - Back To School

Upcoming projects :
Ralph Break the Internet: Wreck it Ralph 2 (2018)
Sec-Nine (2018)

Select Projects :
Kick-Ass (2010)
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
This Is the End (2013)
Captain Phillips (2013)
Big Hero Six (2014)
The Interview (2014)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)
The Birth of a Nation (2016)
Kong: Skull Island (2017)

Some Henry Jackman facts:
- Jumanji: Welcome.. is the first collaboration of Henry Jackman and director Jake Kasdan
- Jackman incorporated an orchestra, guitars, tribal and electronic elements into the score.
- Jackman used the electronic elements to reflect, the “video game aspect” of the new Jumanji story; he used a similar motif for Wreck It Ralph
- Jackman received a BAFTA nomination for Captain Phillips
- Jackman’s global box-office film credits exceed 10 billion dollars
- He wrote, produced and recorded pop music with Art of Noise, Trevor Horn and Seal
- Jackman studied classical music at Eton College and Oxford,
- He later established a reputation as a leading electronica artist in Soho, London underground.

Synopsis:
Twenty years after the events of the first film, the infamous board game has evolved into a video game and while cleaning out a school's basement serving detention, four teenagers find it and get sucked into the same jungle setting that Alan Parrish got sucked into all those years ago. They also become their avatars inside the game and the only way out is to play along and finish it.

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Directed by Jake Kasdan
Produced by Matt Tolmach, William Teitler
Screenplay by Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Jake Kasdan, Scott Rosenberg, Jeff Pinkner
Story by Chris McKenna
Based on Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
Starring Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, Bobby Cannavale
Music by Henry Jackman
Cinematography : Gyula Pados
Edited by Mark Helfrich, Steve Edwards
Production company : Columbia Pictures, Matt Tolmach Productions, Radar Pictures, Seven Bucks Productions
Distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment
Release date : December 20, 2017 (US)
Country :United States
Language : English

Photos: Copyright Copyright Sony Pictures

(Source : press release Cost Communications)