The History of the Music of Tron [PATREON PREVIEW]

[00:00:23] Speaker A: Finally, a little movie called Tron, Ares 2025 came along. Now, Daft Punk were, I read, alleged to be intended to compose the score as late as 2020. Well, we'll see about this. But yeah, one thing I read is that, oh, they still wanted Daft Punk to do it, but then Daft punk disbanded in 2021, as we all know. I've also read that Daft Punk wouldn't do it because they never want to do the same thing twice and had a bad time working with Disney and never wanted to work with them again. Now that makes sense and seems feasible. What do you think? [00:01:00] Speaker B: Yeah, probably. Probably both things, honestly. Combo. Both things not wanting to repeat themselves and having a horrible experience with Disney. [00:01:09] Speaker A: It's hard to imagine that they didn't like the paycheck from Disney unless Disney somehow stiffed them, but I doubt it. I think they made good. Look at, look at how much of the this. How long that vinyl record remained in stores to this day. They were selling them things. Now, Ares is directed by a well known filmmaker you might have heard of called Jochim Roning. I looked up how to pronounce that. [00:01:43] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:01:45] Speaker A: A, I think Norwegian film director. Director of Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Men Tell no Tales, the Maleficent sequel that everyone saw. So this guy's, I guess, just a Disney shill. [00:02:05] Speaker B: Probably just a guy that takes notes. You know what I mean? [00:02:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I've called a lot of people jobbers. This guy is a Disney jobber. Taken. Taken sequels for Disney that probably doesn't. [00:02:17] Speaker B: Have much of his own aesthetic or. I don't want to say that that sounds mean. [00:02:22] Speaker A: Just, you know, isn't like this Ares has aesthetic, but does he have an aesthetic that we all know? No, nobody knows. [00:02:29] Speaker B: He doesn't have a lot of power either. Like, if Wes Anderson were directing Tron and Disney was trying to give him some notes, Wes Anderson would be like, excuse me, I'm Wes Anderson. Ooh la la. [00:02:41] Speaker A: Two people will get that. Okay. So obviously though, we know that it ends up being Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, AKA Nine Inch Nails. Now, why were they chosen is the real question. Though. [00:02:59] Speaker B: I bet it's because Walt Disney was thawed from his Frozen. What do they call those chambers? [00:03:08] Speaker A: His head was unfrozen. Just his head. [00:03:10] Speaker B: His head. And he came out and he was like, I'm from Missouri and I love Head Like a Hole. Get those boys. And then they froze him. [00:03:19] Speaker A: Of course, my favorite song is Head Like a Hole. I'm a head. He's in one of those Futurama tanks. No. Well, first of all, I'll back up and say I think it's good they decided to go in a different direction from Daft Punk. [00:03:35] Speaker B: Mm. [00:03:36] Speaker A: So each movie has its own kind of thing going on. But we also know that Ronin, the director, was a big fan of Daft Punk's score for Legacy, though he called the aesthetic of that movie sleek. And he wanted Ares to have a more industrial feel. Now, that's his word, industrial, that he does say in several interviews. [00:03:56] Speaker B: So he googled industrial, and the first band that came up was Nine Inch. [00:03:59] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty much. Just kidding. Now all these skinny puppy fans are like, why didn't they score it? He wanted it to be grittier. His word again. And to have a contrast between the digital and real world. I think everybody wants that who makes these movies. Yeah. Ronning said Trent and Atticus were on a short list very early on. In a different interview, though, he said that they were the only name on the list. And he said the process was not lengthy because they really wanted to do it. They didn't have to be convinced. From what I read. He also said he loved working with them. Just sitting down in the studio with them and all that, which I'm not surprised to hear. By all means. I mean, I don't think they would work so much if everybody didn't like working with them. [00:04:41] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:04:41] Speaker A: So they're doing something right. They work all the time. Now. The reason, actually, the biggest question is the reason for the NIN distinction. Much discussion in this. They've done a billion scores as Reznor and Ross. Why is this the first one called Nine Inch Nails?