Author: Byron Burton / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Avengers: Infinity War is a homecoming for Alan Silvestri.
The Oscar-nominated composer set the tone for Avengers leading man Captain America with that character’s first solo film in 2011 and scored the team’s first movie, The Avengers, released a year later. After sitting out Avengers: Age of Ultron, he’s returned in time to give Thanos (Josh Brolin) the attention a powerful tyrant like him deserves.
Directors Joe and Anthony Russo and Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige sat down with Silvestri very early in the process on Infinity War.“At our first meeting, we began with the question ‘Is it even possible to give each character’s musical theme a nod?'” Silvestri tells Heat Vision. “We were open to it, but everyone was pretty much in agreement that it would be more of a distraction to even attempt it.”
But Silvestri notes that he gave a nod to composer Ludwig Goransson’s Black Panther theme when the Avengers head to Wakanda. The Infinity War score is purely orchestral, which is what the Russos wanted. Silvestri had never worked with a directing duo prior to this film, and admits he had reservations about the process.
“I was very skeptical at first because being the director, it’s a very subjective job,” he says. “That person, whether it’s a man or woman, is the captain on the ship. If someone needs a definitive answer on something, they go ask the captain.”
Silvestri’s fears were quickly allayed after their first meeting. “It is truly incredible the way the brothers work together,” he says. “They never both start talking at the same time. They instinctively know what the division of labor is within this entity known as ‘The Russo Brothers.
’ It really was like working with one person.”…
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