Fantastic Four (2015 soundtrack)

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Fantastic Four (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Film score by
Marco Beltrami and Philip Glass
ReleasedAugust 7, 2015 (2015-08-07)
StudioNewman Scoring Stage, 20th Century Fox Studios, Los Angeles
Genre Film score
Length1:14:45
Label Sony Classical
Producer
  • Marco Beltrami
  • Philip Glass
  • Miles Hankins
  • Brandon Roberts
  • Marcus Trumpp
  • Buck Sanders
Fantastic Four soundtrack chronology
Rise of the Silver Surfer
(2007)		Fantastic Four
(2015)
No.TitleWriter(s)ArtistLength
1."Fantastic Four Prelude"
 5:16
2."The Garage"
 2:26
3."The Unveiling"
  • Beltrami
  • Brandon Roberts
 1:03
4."Baxter"
  • Beltrami
  • Sanders
 2:45
5."'All My Faith'"
  • Beltrami
  • Miles Hankins
 0:45
6."The Lab"
  • Beltrami
  • Glass
 0:53
7."Meeting of the Minds"
  • Beltrami
  • Hankins
 0:53
8."It Begins"
  • Beltrami
  • Hankins
 0:34
9."Building the Future"
  • Beltrami
  • Roberts
 2:49
10."Launch One"
  • Beltrami
  • Hankins
 3:11
11."Neil Armstrong"
  • Beltrami
  • Hankins
 2:57
12."Maiden Voyage"
  • Beltrami
  • Hankins
 1:56
13."Footprints"
  • Beltrami
  • Hankins
 4:00
14."'Run'"
  • Beltrami
  • Marcus Trumpp
 2:38
15."Ben's Drop"
  • Beltrami
  • Hankins
 2:27
16."Real World Applications"
  • Beltrami
  • Hankins
 1:39
17."Under Pressure"
  • Beltrami
  • Hankins
 1:01
18."The Search"
  • Beltrami
  • Trumpp
 1:58
19."'You're Going to Like This One'"
  • Beltrami
  • Hankins
 1:10
20."Father and Son"
  • Beltrami
  • Hankins
 1:49
21."Return"
  • Beltrami
  • Sanders
 2:42
22."He's Awake"
  • Beltrami
  • Roberts
  • Sanders
  • Trumpp
 6:55
23."Pursuit"
  • Beltrami
  • Hankins
 3:01
24."Strength in Numbers"
  • Beltrami
  • Trumpp
 5:17
25."End Titles"
  • Beltrami
  • Roberts
 6:15
26."Another Body" (Digital bonus track)
 El-P 5:30
27."Fantastic" (Japanese version)
Nam-joon3:44

Reception

In spite of the film's extremely negative reception, the soundtrack still garnered a positive response. Jørn Tillnes of Soundtrack Geek gave a 57 percent score to the album saying "If you’re looking for another Marvel superhero score to match the latest trend, then you’ll find some of it here." [18] Mihnea Manduteanu of Soundtrack Dreams gave 80/100 to the score and praised Glass' co-contribution to the score, while opining that Beltrami's efforts are lost in the film. [19] Robert Trate of Sci-Fi Movie Page called it as an "amazing collection of music that should be listened to while reading a Fantastic Four comic". [20] Brian Lowry, writing for Variety , had opined that Beltrami and Glass "yields some intriguing riffs in what ultimately sounds like a pretty conventional score". [21]

James Southall of Movie Wave wrote "The opening and particularly the closing parts of the album are strong, thoroughly entertaining and impressive.  The Philip Glass bits – which disappear almost completely the closer the score gets to its conclusion – do add a bit of curiosity value, but to be honest no more than that.  The star of the show is Marco Beltrami’s action music towards the end." [22] Filmtracks.com wrote "The entirety of the score is interesting in parts but extremely underachieving given its original potential. It goes without saying that nothing from John Ottman's prior music for the franchise survives here, except for the concept's inability to escape from rather mediocre filler music outside of its blatant thematic expressions. It's an adequate but disengaged endeavor." [3]

Chart performance

Chart (2015)Peak

position

UK Soundtrack Albums (OCC) [23] 46
US Billboard 200 [24] 191
US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard) [25] 25

Personnel

Credits adapted from CD liner notes [26]

Production
Musicians
Orchestra

Notes

  1. ↑ Also marketed in digital platforms as The Fantastic Four (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), and in physical formats as Fantastic 4 and FANT4STIC

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