LAKESHORE RECORDS TO RELEASE SOUNDTRACK FOR THE FILM WANTED, COMPOSED BY
DANNY ELFMAN
Based On The Graphic Novel Series,
WANTED Introduces A Hero For A New Generation . Wes
(June 5, 2008- Los Angeles, CA) - Lakeshore Records will release the
soundtrack for WANTED on June 24th. The soundtrack features music composed
by Danny Elfman, including the original song "The Little Things".
Danny Elfman is a Grammy Award®-winning, Academy Award®-nominated composer
who began his career in the Los Angeles-based band Oingo Boingo. A
self-taught musician and composer, his brother filmmaker Richard Elfman,
asked Elfman to provide music for his first film FORBIDDEN ZONE. Oingo
Boingo would go on to release 8 albums and would contribute music for such
classic 80s films as FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, BACHELOR PARTY, WEIRD
SCIENCE and SOMETHING WILD.
It would be 1985's PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE that started a prolific
relationship with director Tim Burton. The two would collaborate on such
films as BEETLE JUICE, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, BATMAN and BATMAN RETURNS, MARS
ATTACKS!, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, and CORPSE BRIDE, to name a
few. Elfman's non-Burton scores include DICK TRACY, DEAD PRESIDENTS, GOOD
WILL HUNTING, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, and MEN IN BLACK I & II. Together with
the Batman films, Elfman has completed a superhero trifecta, composing for
two films in the Batman series, two films in the SPIDER-MAN series, and 2003's
HULK.
Based upon Mark Millar's explosive graphic novel series and helmed by
stunning visualist director Timur Bekmambetov-creator of the most successful
Russian film franchise in history, the Night Watch series-WANTED tells the
tale of one apathetic nobody's transformation into an unparalleled enforcer
of justice.
In 2008, the world will be introduced to a hero for a new generation: Wesley
Gibson. 25-year-old Wes (James McAvoy) was the most disaffected,
cube-dwelling drone the planet had ever known. His boss chewed him out
hourly, his girlfriend ignored him routinely and his life plodded on
interminably. Everyone was certain this disengaged slacker would amount to
nothing. There was little else for Wes to do but wile away the days and die
in his slow, clock-punching rut. Until he met a woman named Fox (Angelina
Jolie). After his estranged father is murdered, the deadly sexy Fox recruits
Wes into the Fraternity, a secret society led by Sloan (Morgan Freeman) that
trains Wes to avenge his dad's death by unlocking his dormant powers. But,
slowly, he begins to realize there is more to his dangerous associates than
meets the eye. And as he wavers between newfound heroism and vengeance, Wes
will come to learn what no one could ever teach him: he alone controls his
destiny
Universal Pictures presents WANTED, in theaters on June 27, 2008. WANTED
original soundtrack on Lakeshore Records will be available in stores and via
iTunes on June 24th 2008.
For more information contact: cinemediapromo@yahoo.com
