Transformers: The Last Knight (soundtrack)

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Transformers: The Last Knight
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ReleasedJune 23, 2017
Genre Film score
Length2:09:34
Label
Producer Steve Jablonsky
Transformers chronology
Transformers: Age of Extinction – The Score
(2014)
''Transformers: The Last Knight''
(2017)
Bumblebee
(2018)

Transformers: The Last Knight (Music from the Motion Picture) is a soundtrack album for the 2017 film of the same name. The score was written by Steve Jablonsky who composed the scores for the previous four films in the series.

Contents

Track listing

Various tracks in the score reprise themes that Jablonsky wrote for the previous films. The score also features several suites, including "Purity of Heart" and "Stay and Fight". Jablonsky reused the track "Have Faith Prime”, a piece he composed for Age of Extinction; this track isn't included in the score.

In an interview, Jablonsky spoke of the unusual length of the soundtrack, citing that much of his work in the film was cut up in the editing process. As a result, he chose to release a longer score that featured much of his original, unedited music for the film. Some tracks, such as "Sacrifice" and "We Have to Go", were heavily edited for the film, while the score's version of said tracks is unedited suites. For instance, the "Sacrifice" suite runs at seven minutes but was cut down to three minutes in the film. In addition, the "Merlin's Staff" suite, which is six minutes long, was cut down to a thirty-second piece in the film. The "Quintessa" suite was cut apart into at least nine small tracks in the film.

The film's complete score (containing 83 tracks, including unreleased tracks as well as film versions of tracks found on the standard album) was released by Paramount Pictures in January 2018, as part of their "For Your Consideration" campaign. The tracks in the complete score are accurate to how they are heard in the film, with various tracks (such as “Drone Chase”) being cut into multiple parts in order to better match their use in the film. Some of the tracks also intersect with one another.

No.TitleLength
1."Sacrifice"6:47
2."The Coming of Cybertron"4:59
3."Merlin's Staff"5:49
4."No-Go Zone"3:29
5."Stay and Fight"6:26
6."Code Red"2:13
7."Izzy"4:00
8."Purity of Heart"3:34
9."Megatron Negotiation"3:38
10."Today We Hunt"1:47
11."Running Out Of Tomorrows"1:21
12."Drone Chase"5:08
13."You Have Been Chosen"2:18
14."Seglass Ni Tonday"6:27
15."Quintessa"6:36
16."Vivian"3:52
17."Abduction"3:04
18."History of Transformers"4:23
19."Cogman Sings"2:09
20."Vivian Follows Merlin"6:41
21."The Greatest Mission of All"2:19
22."Dive"3:15
23."Two Moons"2:03
24."Merlin's Tomb"3:18
25."Claim the Staff"3:36
26."Prime Versus Bee"2:45
27."Your Voice"4:34
28."I Had My Moment"2:29
29."Ospreys"1:49
30."Battlefield"3:43
31."Did You Forget Who I Am"1:56
32."We Have To Go"5:48
33."Calling All Autobots"2:55
34."Sir Edmund Burton"4:10

Complete Score Tracklist

The film's complete score was released in January 2018, as part of the film's For Your Consideration award campaign. [1]

Track NumberTrack TitleLengthFilm Version of:
1Opening Battle1:46The Coming of Cybertron
2Merlin0:32Merlin's Staff
3Merlin Gets the Staff/Battle Won3:12Sacrifice
4Troubled Times1:57The Coming of Cybertron
5No-Go Zone/Kids3:01No-Go Zone
6Sqweeks/Canopy Part 1*1:05Unreleased track
7Sqweeks/Canopy Part 21:24Unreleased track
8Canopy Death0:41Unreleased track
9Cade Arrival*1:19Unreleased track
10Knight Gives Cade Medal Disk/Cade Captured2:29Stay and Fight
11Stand Down1:48Unreleased track
12That Voice0:53Unreleased track
13Barricade/Megatron0:44Unreleased track
14Quintessa Part 11:13Quintessa
15Quintessa Part 21:32Quintessa
16Cade Driving Amulet1:03Purity of Heart
17Polo0:47Unreleased track
18Vivian Arrives at Museum0:28Unreleased track
19Vivian Museum1:16Vivian
20Quintessa Part 3/Optimus Redemption1:01Quintessa
21Cade's Junkyard0:47Unreleased track
22Talisman (The Medal)1:01Unreleased track
23No Home*1:03"Have Faith Prime" (*from the Age of Extinction score)
24Too Tough to Share1:34Izzy
25Horns from Hell Part 11:10Quintessa
26Horns from Hell Part 20:31Quintessa
27Dad1:28Unreleased track
28Megatron Montage Front1:39Megatron Negotiation
29The Tank/Megatron Names His Crew/TRF Plans2:22Megatron Negotiation
30We Hunt (Decepticons Hunt)1:45Today We Hunt
31Izzy and Cade Fix Voicebox1:23Running Out of Tomorrows
32Lennox Mounts Up/Code Red*2:15Code Red
33Standoff/TRF/Cade1:48Unreleased track
34Megatron Has Sqweeks/Put Him Down1:27Unreleased track
35Drone Chase Part 12:34Drone Chase
36Drone Chase Part 22:27Drone Chase
37Cade Meets Cogman*1:22You Have Been Chosen
38Chosen1:12You Have Been Chosen
39One True Knight/Quintessa Part 10:23Quintessa
40Freak Anomaly0:44Unreleased track
41One True Knight/Quintessa Part 21:02Quintessa
42Father's Study1:11Abduction
43Father's Study/Car Abduction2:00Abduction
44Cade and B Arrive at Burton's0:55Seglass Ni Tonday
45Keep a Secret/Viv Arrives1:29Seglass Ni Tonday
46American Man/Viv and Cade Talk to Burton1:15Unreleased track
47Witwiccans1:59History of Transformers
48Nazis/Battle Memories0:59History of Transformers
49Every Myth0:55Unreleased track
50Round Table/Organ SRC1:28Cogman Sings
51Cogman Choir0:38Cogman Sings
52The Staff2:27Seglass Ni Tonday
53Better Get Cracking4:47Vivian Follows Merlin
54Planetary Vampirism1:24Unreleased track
55Vivian Follows Merlin/Car Chase3:00Vivian Follows Merlin
56HMS Alliance0:57Unreleased track
57Too Old1:57The Greatest Mission of All
58Underwater2:56Dive
59Burton Visits the Prime Minister1:12Unreleased track
60Submarine2:04Stay and Fight
61Two Moons1:54Two Moons
62Slimy Staff Search0:44Unreleased track
63Merlin's Tomb Part 10:47Merlin's Tomb
64Space Station0:39Unreleased track
65Merlin's Tomb Part 22:32Merlin's Tomb
66Claim the Staff3:50Claim the Staff
67Ship Rise1:16Prime Vs. Bee
68Top Side Fight (Prime Vs. Bee)1:42Prime Vs. Bee
69Your Voice*2:14Your Voice
70Knighted Part 1*2:14Your Voice
71Knighted Part 20:28Your Voice
72Shut It Down2:47Unreleased track
73Soldiers Take Position/Burton Dies*2:38I Had My Moment
74Back In the Tank/Quintessa Shoots Blue Light1:01Quintessa
75Crush Zone/Prison Ship Hangar1:30Unreleased track
76Fly With Me0:47Unreleased track
77Ospreys1:42Ospreys
78Gunfire3:39Battlefield
79Dante/Prime Kills Dante*1:53Did You Forget Who I Am
80We Have to Go/Zero Gravity5:22We Have to Go
81Fall and Grab1:31Calling All Autobots
82Ending*2:11Calling All Autobots
83Unicron0:58Quintessa

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [2] 148

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