![]() “I wanted this music to be alive, and performed live, sounding like it was played by humans. “We gave them a little wine to loosen them up, and they seemed to be enjoying themselves.” The guiding principle for the score was “it had to sound be organic and hand-made, because that’s the quality of some of those great blues tracks that Patrick chose,” Övarsson says. “I wanted them dropping F-bombs,” he says with a laugh. In deciding to draft a gospel choir, Hughes had some very specific direction. I used quite a bit of the Hammond B3 organ, which I played myself, and we had a brass section.” “It’s very much a traditional band score – drums, bass, guitarists and keyboards. Övarsson produced the track, recording the music in Iceland, and adding a gospel choir that performed at Abbey Road Studios in London with Jackson adding his vocal at a studio in New York. He went into his trailer and 15 minutes later came out with an entire lyric sheet for ‘Nobody Gets Out Alive.’” So one day when we were doing pickup shots I pitched Sam the idea of turning it into a legitimate song. “When I got into the editing room I thought it was genuinely good. The actor improvised a few lines in a scene in which he’s riding shotgun with Reynolds and trying to annoy him. Perhaps the most inspired musical moment is voiced by Jackson himself. The combination of Hughes’ classic song selections and Övarsson’s soulful score provides “depth and emotional direction” for the story and characters that is rare in action movies, says Millennium Films music supervisor Selena Arizanovic. Glimpsed in a bar, she takes down a gang of bikers as Lionel Richie croons “Hello.” “If Sam was going to fall in love with Selma in a bar, I wanted it to play out in slow motion against a really great ‘80s love ballad,” Hughes explains. I liked the playful nature of it, which turned it from just a badass fight into a bit of a dance.” More melodic irony occurs during a flashback to when Jackson’s character, Kincaid, meets the love of his life, played by Salma Hayek. The Chuck Berry tune was used over a fight sequence. “We were playing a lot of the tracks on set. We even have a busload of singing nuns,” Hughes adds, referring to an interlude of lyrical levity that sees Jackson lead a sisterly sing-along to “The Italian Drinking Song” (an actual ditty, published by Warner/Chappell). “There’s an Australian band called Spiderbait and I always loved their cover of ‘Black Betty,’” says Hughes, who needle-drops it for a speedboat chase through the waterways of Amsterdam. Growing up in Melbourne, Hughes sang and played harmonica in a band, and ‘Hitman’ cuts like Willie Dixon’s “Sittin’ and Cryin’ the Blues,” Leadbelly’s “Black Betty” and Chuck Berry’s “Little Queenie” are nods to those formative years. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds, features a score by Icelandic composer Atli Övarsson that taps into the soulful songs selected for the soundtrack by director Patrick Hughes. The buddy action comedy, which stars Samuel L. “‘Hitman’ will take full advantage of a very slow marketplace over Labor Day weekend and is likely to go three for three,” says comScore senior analyst Paul Dergarabedian. 18, and is teed-up for its third weekend at the top. ![]() Amsterdam Chase – Dmitri Golovko (3:25)ġ5.The bluesy soundtrack to “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” is one of the winning elements of the Lionsgate release, which has been No. I Want To Know What Love Is – Foreigner (5:04)Ĩ. Ships On The Ocean – Junior Well’s Chicago Blues Band (4:07)ħ. Visit the official movie website for updates.ġ. Grant will be released nationwide on Augby Lionsgate. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Salma Hayek, Elodie Yung, Joaquim De Almeida, Kirsty Mitchell and Richard E. The Hitman’s Bodyguard directed by Patrick Hughes and starring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. ![]() Jackson. The soundtrack will be released on Augand is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The album features the film’s original score composed by Atli Orvarsson ( Vantage Point, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Edge of Seventeen, The Eagle). Also included are songs by Lionel Ritchie, Foreigner, King Harvest, Chuck Berry & more, as well as the original track Nobody Gets Out Alive written and performed by Samuel L. The full details of the soundtrack album for the action comedy The Hitman’s Bodyguard have been revealed.
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