When a 3rd Tron film lastly acquired the greenlight, there was one large query that followers requested above all others. Not whether or not any legacy characters would return, nor what the most recent evolution of the Grid could be. No, an important query was: who’ll do the soundtrack? That’s as a result of Tron: Legacy featured a legendary rating courtesy of Daft Punk, one which electrified the movie’s highlights, choosing up the baton from synth pioneer Wendy Carlos and her work on the unique Tron. However since Daft Punk have gone their separate methods within the intervening years, who may presumably step up subsequent? The reply turned out to be good: 9 Inch Nails. Not a Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross rating; one particularly from their industrial alter-egos.
The ask first got here from Tom MacDougall, President of Walt Disney Music, within the wake of Reznor and Ross’s work on Pixar’s Soul. “A few years in the past, he got here by the studio and stated, ‘Do you assume you guys could be excited by scoring Tron?’ He didn’t even end the sentence, I used to be like, ‘Fuck sure, we’d wish to do this’,” Reznor tells Empire. It was the subsequent half that caught him off guard. “He stated, ‘How would you are feeling about if it was credited as 9 Inch Nails, versus Trent and Atticus?’ We weren’t anticipating to listen to that query.”
In consequence, the pair have channeled their band moniker absolutely for this one. “I’ll give a number of spoilers: there’s not one second of orchestra in our rating,” Reznor teases. “It sounds exact and unsightly at occasions. It’s not an atonal, punishing rating, however we spent a whole lot of time eager about the undertones of what’s occurring within the story. The idea of synthetic life infused with emotions and feelings and a way of questioning their goal and their replaceability, their lack of soul, in some methods. We type of riffed on that.” Carry on the downward spiral.
Undeniably, Daft Punk’s Tron: Legacy soundtrack modified the sport, a brand new conception of what movie music may very well be. 9 Inch Nails are hoping to take it to the subsequent stage with Ares. “It’s completely different [from the previous Tron scores]”, Ross notes, “and in locations, maybe takes an even bigger swing for what music can do in cinema. With out sounding fucking pompous. I imply, that was a purpose. You already know, if you happen to’re going to do it, then chances are you’ll as nicely take a giant swing.” Put together to your ears to get de-rezzed.
Learn Empire’s full 9 Inch Nails interview – speaking Tron, their movie scores, and extra – within the Tron: Ares difficulty, on sale Thursday 3 July. Pre-order a duplicate on-line right here. Tron: Ares involves UK cinemas from 10 October.
