PR: Watchmen score and song soundtrack available!
- From: cinemediapromo <cinemediapromo@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:29:33 -0800 (PST)
For Immediate Release
WATCHMEN SOUNDTRACK AND ORIGINAL SCORE RELEASED TODAY, MARCH 3RD, ON
WARNER SUNSET/REPRISE RECORDS
Highly Anticipated Mystery Adventure Film Watchmen
Features New Music From My Chemical Romance
Original Score Album Features Music Composed By Tyler Bates
March 3, 2009 — Burbank, CA — Warner Sunset / Reprise Records released
both the soundtrack and original score to the feature film Watchmen
today, March 3rd. The highly anticipated feature film hits theaters
this Friday, March 6th.
Music From The Motion Picture Watchmen, the film's official
soundtrack, includes My Chemical Romance's powerful reinterpretation
of Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row," recorded exclusively for the film.
The soundtrack also features a collection of classic songs by such
artists as Nat King Cole, Leonard Cohen, and Jimi Hendrix that, once
heard in the context of the film, will never be thought of the same
way again.
Watchmen Original Motion Picture Score features music by recording
artist, composer, and music producer Tyler Bates, who was asked to
score the film by Watchmen director Zack Snyder. Tyler, who also
scored the Snyder-directed films 300 and Dawn of the Dead, has also
scored the soundtracks to The Day the Earth Stood Still, Showtime's
Californication, Slither, Rob Zombie's Halloween, and The Devil's
Rejects. He is known for his surprising juxtapositions of music styles
and flair for delicate, atmospheric touches, as well as stressing
emotional vibrancy over traditional formulas of music compositions.
Bates has also been chosen to score the Watchmen's DVD added story,
"Tales From The Black Freighter."
Music From The Motion Picture Watchmen and Watchmen Original Motion
Picture Score are being released in multiple fan-friendly
configurations: The physical CD, and a digital album are available on
March 3rd, and a vinyl edition of the soundtrack will be released on
March 17th.
Watchmen Singles Box Set will be released on March 24th. The box set
contains seven 7-inch vinyl picture discs, one for each Watchmen, plus
the original Silk Spectre. The picture discs come inside a hardbound
book packaged in a special slipcase. Each picture disc has their image
and unique saying. The Watchmen Singles Box Set will include My
Chemical Romance's cover of Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row," plus 13 hand-
selected tracks from Tyler Bates' Original Motion Picture Score.
The Watchmen Singles Box Set available exclusively at www.watchmenmusic.com
and is now available for pre-order.
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an
alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the
fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" — which charts
the USA's tension with the Soviet Union — moves closer to midnight.
When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the outlawed but no
less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot
to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he
reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion — a disbanded group
of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers — Rorschach
glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their
shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their
mission is to watch over humanity...but who is watching the Watchmen?
Watchmen is directed by Zack Snyder from a screenplay by David Hayter
and Alex Tse, based on the graphic novel co-created by Dave Gibbons,
published by DC Comics. The film is produced by Lawrence Gordon,
Lloyd Levin, and Deborah Snyder. Herbert W. Gains and Thomas Tull
are the executive producers, with Wes Coller serving as co-producer.
The film stars Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla
Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Patrick Wilson.
Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures present, in Association
with Legendary Pictures, a Lawrence Gordon/Lloyd Levin Production, a
Zack Snyder Film, Watchmen. Watchmen will be released nationwide on
March 6, 2009. It will be distributed domestically by Warner Bros.
Pictures and internationally by Paramount Pictures.
Music From The Motion Picture Watchmen track-listing is as follows:
1. Desolation Row - My Chemical Romance
2. Unforgettable - Nat King
Cole
3. The Times They Are A-Changin' - Bob Dylan
4. The Sound Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
5. Me & Bobby McGee - Janis
Joplin
6. I'm Your Boogie Man - KC & The Sunshine Band
7. You're My Thrill - Billie
Holiday
8. Pruit Igoe & Prophecies – The Philip Glass
Ensemble
9. Hallelujah - Leonard
Cohen
10. All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
11. Ride of the Valkyries - Budapest Symphony Orchestra
12. Pirate Jenny - Nina Simone*
* - used in the end credits of the "Tales From The Black Freighter"
DVD.
Watchmen Original Motion Picture Score track-listing is as follows:
1. Rescue
Mission
2. Don't Get Too Misty Eyed
3. Tonight The Comedian Died
4. Silk
Spectre
5. We'll Live
Longer
6. You
Quit!
7. Only Two Names
Remain
8. The American Dream
9. Edward Blake – The Comedian
10. The Last
Laugh
11. Prison
Fight
12. Just Look Around
You
13. Dan's Apocalyptic Dream
14. Who Murdered Hollis Mason?
15. What About Janie
Slater?
16. I'll Tell You About Rorschach
17.
Countdown
18. It Was
Me
19. All That Is
Good
20.Requiem (Excerpted from Mozart's Requiem)
21. I Love You
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