John Debney - Zathura OST
ARTIST.....: John Debney
TITLE......: Zathura OST
LABEL......: Varese Records
URL........: http://www.zathura.com/
RIP DATE...: Dec-18-2005
STORE DATE.: Nov-22-2005
GENRE......: Instrumental
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 64,8 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Main Titles 02:23
02 - Finding The Game 01:31
03 - Meteor Shower 01:24
04 - Aftermath 03:00
05 - Robot Grows/Chase/Standoff 04:00
06 - Too Close To The Sun 02:21
07 - Zorgons' Appearance 01:08
08 - They're Not Friendly 02:25
09 - Couch Decoy 02:18
10 - Astronaut's Story 01:46
11 - Zorgons' Return 02:48
12 - The Dumbwaiter 01:47
13 - Stealing The Game 06:04
14 - Robot's Revenge 01:49
15 - Shooting Star Card 02:28
16 - Brother To Brother 02:17
17 - Danny Wins The Game 01:35
18 - Zathura Is A Blackhole 01:21
19 - Back Home 01:09
20 - Home Again 00:54
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44:28 min
Release Notes:
Based on the best-selling book by the acclaimed children's writer
Chris Van Allsburg ("The Polar Express," "Jumanji"), Zathura is a
heart-racing sci-fi adventure about two squabbling brothers who
are propelled into deepest, darkest space while playing a
mysterious game they discovered in the basement of their old
house.
Zathura: (John Debney) The third large-scale adaptation of a short
Chris Van Allsburg book, Zathura follows Jumanji and The Polar
Express and makes it clear to movie-goers what children's book
readers already knew: this guy must have had a deprived childhood.
Both the two previous films made significant grosses at the box
office, despite poor reviews for Jumanji and highly mixed
reactions to the visual rendering of The Polar Express. Zathura
isn't a fable like The Polar Express and isn't a scary jungle
chase like Jumanji; it is a more innocent, whimsical science
fiction story in which the youth of the tale travel the solar
system in their uprooted house, avoiding space lizards, meteors,
and other phenomena that never really seem too dangerous. Indeed,
not even a badguy gets killed in the story. Actor-turned-director
Jon Favreau, who made a splash with his second film, Elf, a few
years ago, provides the same innocence in fantasy for this Van
Allsburg story. And as before, veteran composer John Debney dives
head first into yet another genre he is expanding upon in his
resume. Debney is easily the composer of the year for 2005, not
because of any particularly gigantic single effort, but for the
mind-boggling volume of his output across endless genres and
instrumental styles. He even received a blessing from the Pope in
Rome, no less, for his concert adaptation of music from The
Passion of the Christ, and would raise money for survivors of
Hurricane Katrina through a benefit performance of that same
concert. With five scores already composed for or on his radar in
the remainder of 2005 and early 2006, you have to admire Debney's
ability to produce interesting and effective music at such a
hurried pace.
Whenever Debney approaches a major adventure or fantasy project,
the first thing score collectors want to know is whether it
compares favorably to his well-established and respected calling
card: Cutthroat Island. So to say it right off the bat, Zathura is
nowhere near Cutthroat Island territory. But it exists at the
better-than-average level of My Favorite Martian and The Scorpion
King, with some of the lengthy choral contributions of the latter
score. What Zathura has going in favor it is a ceaseless level of
orchestral activity from a large L