“What do you mean you don’t like jazz?” Ryan Gosling‘s Sebastien says in disbelief in “La La Land.” The statement might’ve come straight from the mouth of its director Damien Chazelle, who made three straight films — “Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench,” “Whiplash” and “La La land” — with jazz as the centrepiece. However, don’t expect to hear “Caravan” — or anything like it — in Chazelle’s upcoming “First Man.”
Starring Ryan Gosling, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll, and Jason Clarke, written by Oscar winner Josh Singer (“Spotlight”), and based on James R. Hansen’s biography “First Man: The Life Of Neil A. Armstrong” the film will tell the historic story of getting the first man on the moon. However, despite the film’s ’60s setting, Chazelle’s collaborator and composer Justin Hurwitz reveals he’s doing something quite different for this score. Here’s what he told Variety at the Grammys:
#JustinHurwitz on the music for Damien Chazelle (@DSChazelle)'s Neil Armstrong movie, "First Man": "I'm getting away from jazz and old-fashioned orchestral sounds and experimenting with electronic music" #GRAMMYs https://t.co/c3xBlgI5RD pic.twitter.com/JMcqm6If8J
— Variety (@Variety) January 28, 2018
That actually sounds pretty great. Electronic vibes for a story detailing one of the country’s greatest technological leaps and achievements? That sounds about right. We’ll certainly have our ears perked up when “First Man” opens on October 12th.