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“I see The Final of Us as a giant story, like a Shakespearean play,” says composer Gustavo Santaolalla. “I feel The Final of Us is a improbable story.”
Based mostly on the 2013 online game of the identical title, The Final of Us takes place after a world pandemic has destroyed civilization. Joel (Pedro Pascal), a hardened survivor, is tasked with escorting 14-year-old Ellie (Bella Ramsey) throughout the nation in a single final try to save lots of humanity from a lethal fungus.
The unbelievable story of survival and the connection between Joel and Ellie first drew Santaolalla to composing for the sport, which was the primary online game he agreed to compose. “I’ve by no means been a participant, I suck at taking part in video games,” he admits, “however I’ve a son, who on the time was in his mid-teen years… and I at all times loved watching him play.”
Composing for a online game was a particular “level of departure” for Santaolalla’s profession, as firms had been approaching him with work after he acquired his second Oscar. “Certain sufficient, Neil [Druckmann] comes into the image,” he says. “So, when Neil advised me the story, and likewise he made clear that a part of the intention of the sport was to attach with the gamer, [I thought] ‘That is it’… I wrote the music for a narrative, not for a online game.
When Druckmann approached him about composing for the collection, Santaolalla was excited to revisit the story. “I by no means felt that this was a remake of the online game, and that’s additionally why we saved the themes,” he says. For the primary season of The Final of Us, Santaolalla says that he didn’t have to “power himself” to create new themes. “I attempted to stay to the rating with melodies that someway mess around with or evoke themes that we already know,” he says. “I can see now, in a second season, that increasing as a result of I really feel that now we have to.”
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