Composer Henry Jackman is known for fun Disney fare like “Wreck-It-Ralph” and “Big Hero 6” and dark Marvel epics like “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” and “Captain America: Civil War.” But he had never scored a film like “Cherry.”
Starring Tom Holland as an Iraq War veteran whose life spirals downward when he becomes addicted to opioids, “Cherry” was directed by Jackman’s old Marvel colleagues Joe and Anthony Russo. Jackman praises them for encouraging “art and creativity” without restrictions, although he also admits that, without a deadline, “I could easily have wandered off and spent two and a half years” on the project.
“There’s a lot of experimenting,” the London-born, classically trained composer explains. “I did things that were completely out of my comfort zone” which, he says, included everything from playing forgotten instruments in his garage to creating processed guitar sounds, using analog synthesizers from the ’80s,...
Starring Tom Holland as an Iraq War veteran whose life spirals downward when he becomes addicted to opioids, “Cherry” was directed by Jackman’s old Marvel colleagues Joe and Anthony Russo. Jackman praises them for encouraging “art and creativity” without restrictions, although he also admits that, without a deadline, “I could easily have wandered off and spent two and a half years” on the project.
“There’s a lot of experimenting,” the London-born, classically trained composer explains. “I did things that were completely out of my comfort zone” which, he says, included everything from playing forgotten instruments in his garage to creating processed guitar sounds, using analog synthesizers from the ’80s,...
- 2/26/2021
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
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