Jon Burlingame editorPinar Toprak, whose billion-dollar status in films (“Captain Marvel”) and video games (“Fortnite”) has made her one of the world’s most sought-after women composers, has shattered another glass ceiling: She has written the theme for Amazon Prime’s “Thursday Night Football,” launching with a preseason game Aug.
25.The L.A.-based composer recorded the theme and multiple variations on July 8, conducting a 70-piece orchestra at Nashville’s Ocean Way studios.
Variety was present to preview the theme when she mixed it alongside Grammy-winning engineer Alan Meyerson last week in Los Angeles.According to Amazon officials, this is the first new theme music for the rights holder of an NFL package since John Williams penned “Wide Receiver” for NBC Sports in 2006.
Toprak is also the first woman to compose an original theme for an NFL media package. “The theme needed to be both current and timeless,” Toprak said. “It needed to convey the power and energy and hard work that goes into a game, hopefully with a memorable and hummable theme.
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