It’s not quite in the next cue, “High-Tech Heist”, but the feeling is still there. It’s one of those themes that just sticks with you – I’ve found myself humming it over in my head so often since I first heard it.
Spider-Man’s theme is then introduced in the third cue (“Academic Decommitment”) and it’s really good, really catchy – it’s very sprightly and energetic, dancing up and down the scale with a bit of a hip jazz flavour to this initial version. Giacchino takes it as a springboard and then finally gets to launch into some original material, some dramatic thrust leading up to the first statement of Vulture’s theme, quite muted in its initial appearance but it goes dark in the cue’s closing stages. What is slightly surprising is that the first melody heard in the next cue, “The World Is Changing”, is also not by Giacchino – there’s the briefest, subtlest burst of Alan Silvestri’s The Avengers theme to set things off. The score starts with a modern take on the classic 1960s tv theme by Paul Francis Webster and Bob Harris, which plays over the opening logos it’s great fun, but the theme isn’t heard again (not surprisingly). Was he up to the task? Well, of course he was – he’s been on top form for a while now and last year’s Doctor Strange was probably the best Marvel Cinematic Universe score to date. is on hand as Iron Man, playing the character for the 750th time, a new Hollywood record.ĭanny Elfman and James Horner’s themes for the character may just be the finest two comic book themes to come out of Hollywood since the turn of the century (and Christopher Young wrote an excellent score for Raimi’s third one – and Hans Zimmer’s very different take on the character also had its merits) so there was a lot for Michael Giacchino to live up to – but he’s obviously unafraid of stepping into big musical shoes, having done it improbably frequently during his career to date.
Michael Keaton plays the villain, Vulture, and Robert Downey, Jr. Spider-Man: Homecoming, directed by Jon Watts, and starring Tom Holland as Peter Parker. Only ten years passed between the first of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy and the character’s relaunch in The Amazing Spider-Man five years later, here we are again, with the character back again and now part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (the reason for the prompt turnaround this time).
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