After hearing rumors last month that composer Alan Silvestri might be tapped to score theThe Avengers, his official website has now confirmed the rumor to be true; Silvestri will indeed be providing the music for Joss Whedon’s The Avengers film. This isn’t the first time Silvestri has worked with Marvel (and an Avenger for that matter), having provided the music forCaptain America: The First Avenger this past summer which proved to be a fantastic score for a comic book-based film.
"I've worked on films where there have been a number of stars and certainly worked on films where there have been characters of equal weight in terms of their level of importance and profile in the film, but this one is somewhat extreme in that regard because each of these characters has their own world and it's a very different situation... It's very challenging to look for a way to give everyone the weight and consideration they need, but at the same time the film is really about the coming together of these characters, which implies that there is this entity called the Avengers which really has to be representative of all of them together."
It seems rather appropriate that Silvestri is returning to score Captain America once again as it’s the character of Captain America who leads the team of the Avengers when it arrive in theaters everywhere next summer.
Directed by Joss Whedon, The Avengers assemble in theaters on May 4, 2012 and stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo and Cobie Smulders.
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