American rapper-producer Timbaland also contributed to the soundtrack. In addition to Zimmer's score, a rewritten version of the classical song " Kung Fu Fighting" (1974) was performed by CeeLo Green and Jack Black, while the end credits version of the song is sung by Rain and Sam Concepcion, in the soundtrack marketing of the East Asian editions, and Mumiy Troll for the Russian edition. From both of them, we knew that it would be the perfect marriage because the film was a marriage of extremes." So, Hans gave us this huge, epic and beautiful dragon warrior theme, which is very emotional and very sweeping and John was the one who provided us with our very simple, very humble Po music. ![]() So, for us, it was a strong contrast between the two elements that were the most important to our storytelling, and we wanted them to explore that aspect. Osborne said, "We told them from the very beginning we wanted our film to be an intimate story about one character, but the backdrop was just epic, with a very formal and martial world. Stevenson attributed Zimmer and Powell had "both the ability to create lush musical landscapes", hence "there is a huge, majestic, epic quality to Hans’ music and John’s exciting and innovative ideas". John Stevenson and Mark Osborne did not want "to have a soundtrack that had contemporary pop songs in it", instead a traditional and orchestral score for a "big, epic film". Several Chinese instruments, such as erhu, guzheng, Chinese flutes and Baigong pipes were used in the score. Recording of the score was held at AIR Studios in London. In the process, he got to know about the Chinese National Symphony orchestra and brought them on their project, along with the London Symphony Orchestra and London Voices also performing. To score for the film, Zimmer visited China to absorb the culture and influence of traditional Chinese music. This marked Zimmer and Powell's third film working together, after Chill Factor (1999) and DreamWorks' The Road to El Dorado (2000). While Zimmer was intended to be the sole composer, his protégé John Powell was later brought into the project Powell's involvement was confirmed by CEO of DreamWorks Animation, Jeffrey Katzenberg, after the test screening of the film. Hans Zimmer was roped in as the composer for Kung Fu Panda, thereby making his sixth DreamWorks Animation film. The 17-track album was released by Interscope Records on June 3, 2008. As a process, the score was recorded with mostly Chinese traditional instruments, and the China National Symphony Orchestra also performed the score. The album consisted of traditional and orchestral score, infused with Chinese music, where Zimmer visited China to study the traditions and culture. The album features original score composed by Hans Zimmer and John Powell, and a cover of the classical song " Kung Fu Fighting" performed by CeeLo Green and Jack Black (who also plays Po, the lead character). If it doubts itself for one second, the audience will sniff it out'.Kung Fu Panda (Music from the Motion Picture) is the score album to the 2008 film Kung Fu Panda. "He was always like, 'this film needs to go bigger, harder and crazier. "Larry was the person who said it needed to be true to its origins and feel very scrappy and dangerous and electric - that it feels like you're in this naughty secret," says Sharp. Charles helped them hone the script, with 150 drafts getting us to the final product. One of Dicks' biggest backers has been its director Larry Charles (Borat Curb Your Enthusiasm), who helped sell the film in 2016 after seeing a tape of the stage show.Ĭaught in limbo for years due to studio mergers, Dicks was picked up again in 2022 by indie powerhouse A24 (Everything Everywhere All At Once Talk To Me), who have made a name for left-of-centre films. "We were doing it in this theatre in the basement of a grocery store - it was a show we were doing for ourselves, that found its little audience." So how did it get made then? It's good we didn't know that," says Sharp. ![]() "If someone said this was going to take nine years of your life, I might have walked off stage. It was never intended to go beyond its basement audience. It was first created in 2014 as Fucking Identical Twins - a 30-minute, two-man, off-Broadway show at Upright Citizens Brigade, the sketch and comedy school whose alumni include Amy Poehler, Aubrey Plaza and Broad City duo Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson. That's possibly because Dicks: The Musical retains its underground spirit.
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