ComicBook.com has reported that the theme music for Andor will change for each episode. Nicholas Britell’s theme for the new Disney+ series will have slight variations with each episode, with the first season confirmed to feature 12 variations of the main theme.
“One day, I went to Nic’s house, and he played us his theme. I was like, Oh, my God! That’s our theme. I called Kathy Kennedy [to say], ‘We have a theme,'” Gilroy recalled in the series’ production notes. “None of the opening sequences are the same, and each variation is a different orchestration, a completely different interpretation of our theme that Nic has done. There’ll be twelve of them in the show. I’m sure people will parse them and figure them out, what he’s done. I think they’re just absolutely beautiful.”
“Music in Star Wars is just absolutely essentially identified with John Williams — I mean, bow down-but we’re going in a whole other direction. We needed an entirely new vocabulary. We’re making a new visual vocabulary, a storytelling vocabulary; a new casting vocabulary, all these things. We’re going to make a new musical vocabulary,” the showrunner explained. “Nic Britell was not only available but interested. Nic is just one of the premiere composers of the moment right now. He’s just on fire, and he’s inspired.”
The music for “Andor” is by Emmy®-winning composer Nicholas Britell (“Succession,” “Moonlight”).
NICHOLAS BRITELL (Composer) is an Emmy®-winning and three-time Academy Award®- nominated composer, pianist and producer known for his critically acclaimed scores on feature films with Academy Award®-winning writer-directors Barry Jenkins and Adam McKay.
In 2016, Britell was responsible for the world-renowned score for Best Picture winner “Moonlight,” written and directed by Jenkins. Britell received his first Academy Award®, Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice nominations for “Moonlight” as well as the 2016 Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score (Dramatic Feature). In 2018, Britell wrote the highly acclaimed score for Barry Jenkins’s “If Beale Street Could Talk.” Britell received his second Academy Award® nomination, BAFTA and Critics’ Choice nominations for “Beale Street” and was awarded Best Original Score by numerous critics’ groups. Previous film scores include McKay’s “The Big Short” and “Vice,” Disney’s box office hit “Cruella” and Netflix’s “The King,” among others.
Britell’s most recent film work includes writing the score and co-writing and producing two original songs for McKay’s Netflix comedy “Don’t Look Up” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, which earned him Academy Award® and BAFTA nominations for Best Original Score and multiple Critics’ Choice nominations. Britell won the 2021 Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Score – Feature Film and received two nominations for Original Song “Just Look Up” and On-Screen Performance for “Just Look Up,” which he co-wrote with Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi and Taura Stinson. He also won an SCL Award for Outstanding Original Song for a Comedy. Britell’s upcoming film projects include writing the score for Jenkins’s prequel to “The Lion King” for Walt Disney Pictures.
For television, Britell won an Emmy® for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme as well as the 2018 Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score (TV Show/Limited Series) for “Succession” Season 1 for which he re-teamed with McKay who directed the pilot. Britell’s score and main title theme have become some of the most talked about music for television. Britell’s score to Barry Jenkins’s critically acclaimed limited series “The Underground Railroad” was recognized in 2021 with an Emmy® nomination for Outstanding Music Composition. In addition, Britell recently collaborated with Grammy®-winning artist Robert Glasper on the score for McKay’s HBO drama series “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.” Britell is a Steinway Artist, a Creative Associate of the Juilliard School and an honors and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University.
- Hardcover Book
- Córdova, Zoraida (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 368 Pages - 11/22/2022 (Publication Date) - Random House Worlds (Publisher)
