Season 5 of The Film Scorer Podcast continues to pick up steam as Kris Bowers (Bridgerton, Green Book) joins the show! The Academy Award winner and nominee (who was just nominated for a Grammy for his score to The Color Purple a few days ago) recently scored the hit animated film The Wild Robot. As such, Kris and I spend much of our conversation talking about his score, which is both adventurous and a tearjerker, and filled with thematic exploration. The conversation touches on the challenges of scoring for animation, the increasing amount of space the film made for Kris’s score, how it let Kris run wild with his passion for thematic and melodic scoring (drawing a number of Star Wars parallels), and plenty more.
Kris’s score for The Wild Robot has made a lot of waves, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up on plenty of peoples’ and organizations’ best-of lists by the end of the year. The big question is: will it land on mine? Stay tuned to find out.
Kris’s score for Green Book was actually one of the first scores I ever reviewed/wrote about (although I didn’t mention that to him). It’s a ton of fun having the chance to meet with and talk to some of those composers who unknowingly helped kickstart this whole project and further push that interest in film and film music that fuels this whole thing!
Kris’s score, and much of his other music, is available on all major platforms. The Wild Robot is currently in theaters, and available to watch at home now. You can find out more about Kris on his website.
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About The Wild Robot
“From DreamWorks Animation comes a new adaptation of a literary sensation, Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot. The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot – ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short – that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling. “
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