WaterTower Music is proud to announce today's release of "Worlds Collide" and "Run"-the first music to be released from Warner Bros. Pictures' upcoming film "The Flash." "The Flash", Directed by Andy Muschietti (the "IT" films, "Mama"), serves as the DC Super Hero's first-ever standalone feature film.
"Worlds Collide" and "Run" were created by lauded two-time GRAMMY- and BAFTA-nominated composer Benjamin Wallfisch (The "IT" films, "Shazam," "Blade Runner: 2049" [with Hans Zimmer]) and both are now available for streaming (Standard and Dolby Atmos / Spatial Audio configurations) and digital purchase. The two tracks will also be included in the upcoming The Flash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), which is scheduled for release the same day the film is set to open in theaters in North America, June 16, 2023.
Wallfisch said, "Worlds Collide" was a cue that Andy (Muschietti) and I iterated on probably over 50 times to get just right, even as the orchestra was recording it. Andy's incredibly creative ideas meant adjusting the music and musicians in real-time. The track is built on a chord progression where the outer voices of the chords move towards each other, almost pulled together by a powerful gravitational force, whilst always building in intensity. At the apex, there are about 17 layers of the orchestra playing together-probably over 1000 musicians! It was one of those moments where we had to 'go big or go home' to match the magnitude of what fans will see on screen!"
He added, "Andy invited me to come on board for the movie in the summer of 2020. Although the script was still being developed, I was inspired by the film concepts we discussed. "Run" was basically the first music I envisioned: a restless, searching piano figure, representing Barry's crisis after losing his mother, played against insistent staccato strings that are on the edge of being impossible to perform because of their sheer speed. A few days later, and months prior to shooting," Wallfisch continued, "I played this super rough sketch to Andy, alongside a bunch of other ideas for the film. Then, two years later, as Andy was putting together his first cut, he surprised me by putting this little piano sketch up against a picture in one of the key moments in the movie, and it stayed there through to the final, almost unchanged. Andy and I have worked together closely for the last six years, and this was a moment I was especially grateful for our relationship. I feel so fortunate to have such a creative shorthand with someone I consider an absolute genius".
Golden Globe, BAFTA, 2x Grammy, Emmy, and 5x World Soundtrack Award-nominated composer Benjamin Wallfisch has worked on over 80 feature films, collaborating with directors including Ron Howard, Ted Melfi, Andy Muschietti, Christopher Nolan, David F. Sandberg, Leigh Whannell, Gore Verbinski, and Denis Villeneuve. His latest project is Andy Muschietti's The Flash for DC / Warner Bros.
A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, and mentored by Dario Marianelli and Hans Zimmer, Benjamin's notable projects include It and It Chapter Two, Blade Runner 2049 (with Hans Zimmer), Shazam!, The Invisible Man, Mortal Kombat, Thirteen Lives, A Cure For Wellness, Annabelle: Creation, King Of Thieves, Hidden Figures (with Pharrell Williams and Hans Zimmer), and music based on Elgar's Enigma Variations for Dunkirk.
Benjamin has performed live in over 100 concerts worldwide, conducting orchestras such as the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the Sydney Symphony at venues including the Hollywood Bowl, Sydney Opera House, and Royal Festival Hall. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and BAFTA and is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. In 2019 he founded The Scoring Lab, a state-of-the-art scoring production company and Dolby Atmos Certified mix studio in the heart of Santa Monica, California.
