Started by Spiderman, Mar 22, 2009, 10:11:22 PM
QuoteFilm composer Michael Giacchino's dim-lit man cave looks like a sorcerer's dungeon lair...just with a massive computer monitor and overhanging podcast mic instead of a cauldron. The cabinet of curiosities in the background contains strange artifacts, including the Bloodstone prop from Werewolf by Night, the Marvel TV special Giacchino directed for Disney+. Old Star Wars and Star Trek action figures also peek out from behind the glass."Really it's most of all my toys from when I was a kid," the composer behind The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Thor: Love and Thunder, and Spider-Man: No Way Home, tells Entertainment Weekly. "It's a little bit of a crazy museum back there...for those people who refuse to grow up, I guess."It's an appropriate workspace for someone who conjures monsters in his spare time. While scoring Marvel's upcoming Fantastic Four movie (hitting theaters this July 25), Giacchino simultaneously wrote a comic book in secret, marking his first foray with the medium. The story is a Werewolf by Night title, but it's not connected to his TV special, which starred Gael García Bernal as Jack Russell, a werewolf and monster hunter who infiltrates the storied Bloodstone Manor and braves other dangerous hunters to save his buddy Ted, a swamp creature more commonly known as Man-Thing. Instead, Giacchino crafted a tale set during the original run of Jack Russell stories, which launched in Marvel Comics in 1972."It could be a lost story from the original run, in a way," he says. Starting with issue #1, "Blood Moon Rise" (out this July), Giacchino's Werewolf by Night comic brings in the original vampire. "It's Dracula who has tracked him down to exact some revenge from the last time that they were together in the comics," he explains. "There's a fun twist to it that I think is going to be really interesting for people who are into Jack Russell and that lore." There's another character he incorporates, but Giacchino hopes to let it be a surprise — even if, he says, it "probably will be no surprise" to fans.In "the very, very, very beginning" of developing Werewolf by Night as the TV special, Giacchino considered framing the plot around Jack dealing with "a rogue group of vampires that were doing bad things." That didn't necessarily inspire his Dracula-centric comic now. It rather came from his childhood love of monster comics, including a few of the original Werewolf by Night titles that featured the OG bloodsucker."I like the monster stories. I like how they humanize what are otherwise described or seen by the rest of the world as awful creatures and...well, monsters," he says. "I never saw them that way. I always saw them as people with some sort of problem that they needed help with. I always felt bad for them. I really did. So there's this emotional attachment to those stories, which is still with me today."Giacchino teams with artist David Messina, who worked on Ultimate Spider-Man, Miles Morales, Han Solo & Chewbacca, Cloak and Dagger, various X-Men and Star Wars comics, and more titles for Marvel. Giacchino hopes to bring a more cinematic approach to the art style, compared to what previous titles on Marvel's horror side adopted over the years.As for more Werewolf by Night on Disney+, he says, "I think I would like to do something with the story that we created for television, but that's got its own thing going and it doesn't quite slot into what's happening currently in Jack's life in the Marvel [comics] world. So there's a little bit of navigating there."Ultimately, he's waiting to see how the industry shakes out. Werewolf by Night dropped during a time when there was a streaming boom followed by a retracted streaming boom as companies realized how much money they were losing in saturating the market. "I would love to do another Werewolf by Night [special] more than anything," Giacchino says. "I think we're just waiting for the industry to settle into its new norm, whatever that is at this point, before we figure out what to do there."He also has a few other irons in the fire. On top of his composing work, Giacchino is also planning his feature film directorial debut with a remake of Them!, the 1954 black-and-white sci-fi movie about gargantuan man-eating ants. "I'm in the middle of development on that," he says.As for his future in comics, there's no grand plan for the moment beyond this initial Werewolf by Night run. Giacchino would, however, be interested in doing more. "I never want to feel like I'm the kind of creative person that is doing the one thing over and over again," he adds. "I'm always looking for something else that is fun to do." All he needs for inspiration is his man cave's trove of childhood treasures.
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