So, we already know Nigel Godrich is shepherding the rich talent of music on board Edgar Wright’s “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World,” and we know that he’s curating the soundtrack with Wright as well as producing all the new written music for the film.
But his role evidently doesn’t end there, as the famed Radiohead producer is now set to also score the film with a bevy of undisclosed musicians, according to Beck’s official website and later confirmed to us by sources close to the film.
As an acclaimed producer who works regularly with Radiohead, Beck and Air among many others, the notion of a score from Godrich working with a team of recruited musicians is an exciting prospect. The picture below is likely an early clue — Godrich is photographed here with Broken Social Scene members Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning and bare in mind Wright has previously expressed a strong desire to capture the sound of the story’s Toronto setting (and the Broken Social Scene members have been scoring a multitude of films in recent years, including most recently, Bruce McDonald’s “The Tracey Fragements.”)
The film already boasts a mouth-watering array of musical contributions and cameos, including:
– Regular Godrich collaborator Beck, who has written new music for Pilgrim’s band alt-country Sex Bob-omb — two of his songs were featured in the film’s teaser trailer
– Synth-rockers Metric will be subbing in for fictional band The Clash At Demonhead and have provided a previously unreleased demo “Black Sheep.”
– Indie-rockers Broken Social Scene will sub in for Crash & The Boys.
– Future-pop artist Cornelius has written music for Japanese twins, Kyle and Ken Katayanagi.
– Hip-hop producer Dan “The Automator” Nakamura contributed to the film’s soundtrack.
– Indie-rocker Chris Murphy from Sloan acted as a live performance coach for some of the actors.
Update: Someone likes our work. A source close to the project tells us that Dan Nakamura wrote an original song for the character of Matthew Patel (one of the seven evil ex-boyfriends in the story) and also composed another piece of music exclusively for the film.
God, all that music and the film’s deliciously frantic, video-game-inspired aesthetic: could you imagine editing this thing? And that’s not all either. We’ve been told that several other notable musicians will be announced for the soundtrack and film as well, so there will be more names to come. We’d remind you who stars in this film but if you don’t already know, you probably didn’t read this far anyway. The film hit theaters August 13th in the U.S.