Nimona

Nimona (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film) is the score album to the 2023 film of the same name directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane. The score composed by Christophe Beck consisted of a "classical and traditional music representing the fairytale past" and infused with punk rock and metal genres, to accompany the story and its characters. It also accompanies a soundtrack that consisted of contemporary hits from popular artists handpicked by the music supervisor Kier Lehman. Besides the existing music, an original song "T-Rex" performed by K.Flay released as a single on June 23, 2023. Beck's score was released into a separate album by Netflix Music, the following week, which also included the song "T-Rex". Development Beck was initially part of scoring Nimona in late-2017, when the film was under development at Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Animation, with Patrick Osborne directing, having previously worked on Blue Sky's The Peanuts Movie (2015). He was continued to be under consideration during the production schedule—Osborne's exit and Bruno and Quane taking over the directorial duties, and the film's cancellation and subsequent revival—which he called it "the longest time he was ever been on a project" and was the challenging aspect. He was officially confirmed as the film's composer on May 2021, while Kier Lehman was the music supervisor, noteworthy for the music of Spider-Verse film series. Beck called the setting and combination as "never seen before" where the "medieval environment would have knights with swords and cell phones". To capture the medieval setting, he wrote a traditional orchestral music using a certain type and infused it with contemporary elements using electronics and synthesizers forming the backbone of the story. He further wrote two emotional themes for Nimona and Ballister, which were "strong and heartfelt" and simultaneously interplayed with one another to serve the emotional content. The former, was much softer and "speaks to the way every human being on this planet has a mask that they show the rest of the world and, in Nimona’s case, the mask she’s choosing to show Ballister is 'I’m having fun. I like chaos. I like mayhem. I like to beat people up, and I like to be the villain.'" He also had written an heroic theme that consisted of brass music that deviates into the low register of trombones and French horns, to give a "snarly kind of effect".