Whoa – M83 is Scoring Tom Cruise / Joe Kosinski’s Sci-Fi ‘Oblivion’

This is awesome. It was Joe Kosinski who took a risk getting Daft Punk to score Tron Legacy, but the results were superb, a great score that I still find myself listening to today. Now he’s mixing it up again with his next sci-fi feature, Oblivion, due out early next year starring Tom Cruise as “one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth.” Thanks to an news on The Playlist, Kosinski has secured French electronic band M83 to score the movie, with frontman Anthony Gonzalez leading the way. As a fan of M83 myself, this is great to hear, especially knowing their sound and how it will play into the world Kosinski has created. So the trend of hiring bands and up-and-coming musicians as composers continues, this time with a focus on Gonzalez and M83. The Playlist has some great quotes about how this all came together. Gonzalez told …