Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter says writing the score for ‘Tron: Legacy’ was “depressing” and “limiting”
The musician and producer reflected on working on the 2010 Disney film during a recent episode of The A24 Podcast, in conversation with Dev Hynes, aka Blood Orange.
He explained that director Joseph Kosinski – who went on to make Top Gun: Maverick and F1, had expected Daft Punk to create an entirely electronic score, but Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo actually wanted to use the opportunity to work with a full symphony orchestra.
“It’s always very depressing, actually, when you have all these ideas , and you say, ‘OK, I’m gonna bring that’, and you end up almost having to go back to a more traditional way of doing it,” he said.
The Tron: Legacy soundtrack was Daft Punk’s first full film score, and at the time, Bangalter called it “by far the most challenging and complex thing we have ever been involved with”. A complete edition with previously unavailable tracks was released for the film’s 10th anniversary in 2020, and a vinyl reissue followed a year later.
Daft Punk, meanwhile, split in 2021 after 28 years, and earlier this year, Bangalter ruled out a reunion as there were still “other things to explore” outside of the duo. They were still heard a lot this summer, though, as their track ‘One More Time’ was France’s official goal music at the FIFA World Cup.
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