Pixar’s ongoing efforts to make pre-teen children think about the fact that, really, we’re all just decaying meat on the way to the grave, took another grand step forward today, when the studio announced at D23 that its next feature—after early 2020-Shrek-a-like Onward—will be Soul, all about what happens after you die. (And yes, they already did that; no, no one seems to mind.) The film stars Jamie Foxx as a middle-aged music teacher who falls down a sewer manhole and dies—still less depressing than Up—and who finds himself wandering around as a soul, alongside a whole bunch of other presumably dead people, including Tina Fey.
The big takeaway here—besides, again, our rapidly onrushing deaths, and Pixar’s fervent desire to remind us of them—is how good this thing is likely to sound; besides Foxx and Fey, the film’s voice cast includes Questlove, Phylicia Rashad, and Daveed Diggs, with original music from Jon Batiste and a soundtrack from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. The film is currently headed toward a June 19, 2020 release—unless of course someone involved dies, which they do all the time, because truly, we are all as CG-animated dust.
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a soundtrack from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
*does a spit-take*Wha? I mean, I guess it makes sense given the content of the movie, but I’m having trouble wrapping my head around the idea of NIN doing the soundtrack to a kids’ movie.
You’re saying kids don’t wanna see me stick Nine Inch Nails through each one of my eyelids?
They’re not dead, they’re just pinning for the Fjords.
And yearning for the Chjevys.
You’ve misspelled a word there, but it’s not the one you might think.
All we are is bits in the wind…
Same old movie, just a passing of electrons on an endless screen…
The creative team behind this makes me feel that I will be weeping at some point.
So Pixar is now clearly developing movies via the manatees and beachall method ala the “South Park” gag about “Family Guy”…
Wait, there’s going to be a fucking Nine Inch Nails soundtrack for a Pixar film?
Nine Inch Nails heyday is possibly as far removed from the present day as the Beach Boy’s heyday is from your childhood.
Nine Inch Nails heyday was literally during my childhood.
Nine Inch Nails was my childhood.
Trent Reznor is my deadbeat dad.
I don’t think dude’s point was that, I think his point was that it’s 20 years past, so Nine Inch Nails isn’t just Downward Spiral and Pretty Hate Machine, Reznor has been doing movie scores for years.
He was also the composer for Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road, if that helps
Apparently Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have done two other soundtracks. The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Still an odd choice but they do have experience.
Trent Reznor has done quite a bit of scoring lately–he also scored Bird Box, a Vietnam documentary, and some video games. But even in that context “The guy who scored Social Network is doing a Pixar movie” is an odd choice
You can only get so rich before being professionally sad is no longer an option. “I HURT MYSELF JUST TO FEEL” he writes, from his yacht.
They also did Gone Girl, Birdbox, and Mid ‘90s!
I distinctly remember that in the liner notes of Pretty Hate Machine it said “Nine Inch Nails is Trent Reznor”, so yes.
I’d say you had me at ‘Trent Reznor’, but that came very need the end of the list.
I’m not the only one who thought this article title was a review of a completed movie, right?
If his character’s name is Sean Doyle we will know Pixar is truly sadistic.
The film’s release on Juneteenth has me very curious also considering it’s now largely black cast (aside from Get). Also since when are people coming Onward to Shrek?
Look, I’m tired of going over this: Up is not a depressing movie. Unless you watched the first ten minutes and turned it off, in which case, yes, it’s nearly suicide inducing. The movie as a whole is wonderful and I watch it often.
The dogs in the biplanes that shoot tranquilizer darts when said dog pilots squeeze the squeaky toy in the cockpit make me cackle.And don’t even get me started on Kevin.Or Dug.Or Russell. ‘But it’s a TALKING DOG!’
This is the weirdest combination of music choices for a film I’ve ever heard of, and I love it. And that includes the Judgment Night soundtrack, which I’ve referred to twice this week.
It sounds crazy, until you realize that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are also responsible for the soundtrack for HBO’s Watchmen series, and that shit is on POINT.Also, Judgement Night was calculated madness, and I still remember a BUNCH of those tracks, in spite of never bothering to see the movie. I AWARD YOU TWO INTERNET POINTS (one for your Rap contributions, and another for your Rock contributions, Judgement Night style.)
I unabashedly love the JN soundtrack. So many great songs, but I think the Onyx/Biohazard one is my favorite. I SWEAR TO FUCKIN GOD I RAISE HELL AND MAKE THE WHITE MAN CALL ME MASTER! Love that shit. Rap-rock was so good before it sucked.I have not heard the Watchmen soundtrack yet because I haven’t started watching the show yet. I KNOW. I’ve got them all queued up on my tablet for my holiday flights next week. I can’t wait. I dig the shit out of their soundtracks for The Social Network and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, so I expect to be enthralled.This muh JAM.