Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American composer and conductor known for his film and television scores. He composed the soundtrack to the Ready Player One movie.
Ready Player One[]
He and Spielberg then set about the more normal back-and-forth collaboration for the remainder of the score. Silvestri wrote a nostalgic, wistful theme for both eccentric creator Halliday (Mark Rylance) and the film's young protagonist, Wade (Tye Sheridan), who share a pure-hearted love of virtual reality wonderland OASIS.
In a film stuffed with pop culture Easter eggs, the composer also nodded to his "Back to the Future" scores. A recurring motif is one Silvestri first wrote for the clock tower climax of the original 1985 film. "That is pure Steven," says Silvestri. "He said, 'This is a "Back to the Future" moment.' 'Oh, so you want something really like "Back to the Future"?' 'No, I want "Back to the Future," and I want it exactly the way it was in the movie.' " Spielberg praised Silvestri for giving his film "a lot of exhilarating propulsion. His music is not subliminal accompaniment, but it's a central character and is intended to be noticed in a big way. Like John Williams, Alan understands the purpose of tailoring the themes you walk out of the movies humming in order to identify characters, and the epic movements in movies that are designed to be somewhat operatic."
"It's incredible that there is this chance to write melodic, orchestral, thematic material, and there are folks that still want that," says Silvestri, who also just finished scoring "Avengers: Infinity War." "We have Mr. Williams to thank for showing us, clearly, the power of thematic material in a motion picture, over and over and over again."
Williams, 86, even showed up at the scoring stage one day and sat with Spielberg while Silvestri conducted his score.
"I felt so supported by both of them," Silvestri says. "I did my work. I felt confident about it. Steven seemed to really be liking what I was doing. And so it really was business as usual — with this surreal layer for me. To have been invited on this journey, and now see those two men sitting there — it was beyond beyond a wildest dream."
Trivia[]
- Alan Silvestri put a jingle of Back To The Future theme in Ready Player One