Double Academy Award Winning Gustavo Santaolalla to Score The Last of Us
We already knew that The Last of Us had an amazing studio developing the game, but now it has been revealed that multi-award winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla will also be working on the post-apocalyptic title.
Santaolalla won back-to-back Academy Awards for Best Score for Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Babel (2006), as well as BAFTA Awards, a BMI Icon Award, 2 Golden Globe Awards, 2 Grammy Awards and 12 Latin Grammy Awards.
Neil Druckmann said at a presentation at Santa Monica:
He’s awesome. He picks and chooses what he works on – he could work on all these big movies. We brought him in here, showed him the game, walked him through the whole story and what we’re trying to do, and he said ‘I want to be a part of this’.
Continuing:
With this music we’re trying to get emotion. We’re not going for horror. There’s going to be horrific things happening in this game, but that’s not the focus of it. The monsters aren’t the focus of it, it’s the relationship between Joel and Ellie.
The main theme will be acoustic guitar-led, like much of Santaolalla’s work.
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3 Responses to “Double Academy Award Winning Gustavo Santaolalla to Score The Last of Us”
ah no greg edmonson kind of a let down oh well
The thing with Santaolalla is that, it seems to me, his guitar always sounds the same. I actually recognized it was him or a very good imitator when I watched the trailer, his fiddling is basically the same in all his works. And I wouldn’t mind as much if there was anything else to his composition, but that melodramatic fiddling is all it is. Listen to the first episode of TV series 24, pay attention to the guitar in the soundtrack, it’s unmistakable.
If we go by Edmonson’s words, Santaolalla has been working with TLOU for quite a while, either that or the production is going a little different than what is used to in the Uncharted series. Edmonson said in an interview “But when you start working on a video game, you really start early in the process. In all honesty, there’s absolutely nothing to look at”. I wonder if this time is different since, as far as I know, Santaloalla has no videogame experience or maybe ND had to accommodate his schedule. It’s quite evident and confirmed TLOU is not in the early stages of production.