Music of The Force Unleashed…

Over the last few months, we’ve all learned quite a bit about The Force Unleashed (Like how they’re not making a PC version…. haha just kidding, i’m not really that bitter about it…. no really) so now we’re going to learn a little bit about where the music from The Force Unleashed comes from.

A lot of the game’s music feature themes are from the movie scores composed by John Williams. The original score for The Force Unleashed is composed by Mark Griskey, who composed the scores for KOTOR:2. The main theme music was written by LucasArts in-house composer and music supervisor Jesse Harlin and arranged by Mark Griskey.

Mark Griskey details the brief for the original score, “One of the main goals of the score was to bridge the gap between the sounds of the prequels and the original trilogy. The game will feature a lot of John Williams’ music from the films as well as the original music we recorded. The music needed to stylistically match the music from the films and incorporated some of the well known themes from the films. I also composed several original themes for characters, and location unique to the game.”

The soundtrack features around 90 minutes of original music recorded with 80 musicians of the Skywalker Symphony Orchestra at the Skywalker Sound Scoring Stage on September 23rd and 24th, 2007. The score was then mixed for three days at Skywalker Sound (September 27th-October1st.)

Check out the full article here, it’s definitely an interesting read.