Bring out your cassette players because the original score forGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3is about to hit cassettes and vinyl real soon, according to a report fromComicBook. Music has been an integral part of the franchises’ success andpopularity from the beginning— who can forget Peter Quill’s introductory dance sequence onRedbone’s “Come and Get Your Love” inVol. 1or the way it perfectly closes the trilogy inVol. 3?
James Gunn, who wrote and directed the franchise, beautifully weavedthe musical moments into the scripthighlighting pivotal moments for the Guardians on their journeys. He then takes it step ahead by playing the numbers during the shoot so the actors can step into the Guardians' world and headspace. Speaking of the music used inVol .3Gunn said in a press release, “I was never confident in it until I did the first screenings and people reacted so well to it.” Further revealing, “I kept changing what the music was going to be in the script. I knew that we had the Zune, so I knew that it was going to be off that.” While previous movies had the 70s hit numbers for the latest installment Gunn decided to include a few more decades, saying:
“I could’ve stuck with all ’70s music like in the first two movies. I could’ve moved on and just done ’80s or I could’ve done just ’90s, because there’s a lot of good spacey Brit pop from the ’90s. In the end, I decided that I was going to do a mix of different types of music and hope that it didn’t fight each other.”
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Guardians' Music Defines Peter’s Emotional Arc
Along with being anemotional thread of the charactersthe music inGuardiansmovies always comes from a diegetic source, meaning the source is set in the world of narration, for the first feature it was Peter’s Walkman.Chris Prattexplains, “The first Awesome Mix was the one Peter Quill’s mother gave him and he took to space. This was the music that defined who he was.” In the second movie, he tells it was a “tape that she had left him that he never opened for fear that it was the last thing he’d ever see of her. But finally, he opens it and that gives us the soundtrack for the second film.” For the new feature, the actor says all music comes from “the Zune that was given to Peter Quill by Yondu. That music moves out of the ’70s and into bands likeBeastie BoysandRadioheadandFaith No More.”
The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Original Scoreis out now on vinyl and lands on cassette on July 7th.
