Sarah Schachner, the composer behind several of the latest Assassin’s Creed video games including the latest Valhalla, has announced that she scored the soundtrack for Dan Trachtenberg’s upcoming Predator film, Prey!
In addition to her work on the Assassin’s Creed series, Sarah Schachner is known for her work on other major video game franchises, including Anthem and Call of Duty. Her discography also includes films such as The Lazarus Effect and Remains. Thanks to Mikey for the news!
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I'm hoping to forgoe the original Predator theme for a new unique theme like we seen in Predator 2. Lot of mixed urban/tribal themes that perfectly mixed with the new setting of the film and I'm hoping to see the same thought of mixing the current setting with the Predator's tribal theme in the soundtrack.
Regardless, here's hoping she's done a good job on this and we're in for another great Predator score!
I also hope they don't end up going "full Mandalorian/Obi-Wan" and completely ditching any and all existing themes (with one or two exceptions) in favour of 100% new stuff. I totally get why The Mandalorian went that route, and for the vast majority of the time it was absolutely the right choice, but watching Obi-Wan has definitely made me think "are we really not going to use that certain theme here? Really?"
So fingers crossed we get some new stuff that's evocative of the classic Predator scores of the past while also not overdoing it, maybe working up to only one or two uses of the main theme at key moments that have been built to after not having hear it at any point throughout the rest of the film.
Either way, like the rest of the film itself, I'm looking forward to it!
That Valhalla soundtrack is strong. Very evocative. (haven't touched those games).
A great piece of music playing over an inappropriate scene makes the scene bad, not the music.
I only played a bit of Valhalla but I played all of Origins which she scored as well. Both games had excellent music. Also Modern Warfare 2019 which is another high production score.
Sarah Schachner's mentor was Brian Tyler, who scored AVPR. Say what you will about that one, it had a good score.
This performance at the Game Awards for Anthem a few years back was quite good. She scored the game but she's performing on the vocal modulation here:
Hmmm, doesn't necessarily fill me with confidence. But who knows, might be good, might be even great. I just hope she doesn't rely too much on classic theme, you know, "dudududu-dudududu-tututum" one
Her Twitter bio says Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed and Anthem.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrnmS9kOjwdy1d5FYvZ6f2w
From a quick listen to some of her Valhalla stuff, it's getting me a little excited. Has me imagining a score that's like Last of the Mohicans (which has a great score btw). Funny I hadn't really considered what the score might sound like until now, I certainly don't think something in the style of Predator would work