‘Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters’ Composer Leopold Ross On Creating Monster Hits For Godzilla Series – Sound & Screen TV
deadline.comHow do you score an ecological, apocalyptic threat like Godzilla? This was one of many questions on the mind of Apple TV+’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters composer Leopold Ross.
While sitting down to for a conversation at Deadline’s Sound & Screen Television live-music event, Ross opened up about his excitement and worries about what it took to score Apple TV+’s kaiju-based series.
When showrunner and executive producer Chris Black first approached the in-demand Ross, he instantly knew it was an offer he couldn’t refuse. “He [sent] me the first footage and I’m watching the show like, f*cking hell, that’s Godzilla.” Ross recalled. “It gave me a burst of adrenaline and I went on a tear of writing.
It was pressure and also excitement. Godzilla is a screen icon. Everybody in the world knows who Godzilla is, so the idea that I would have an opportunity to create some kind of thematic element that would live in his cannon was super exciting.” The series follows the aftermath of the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco.
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