Ludwig Gornson is an astranger to the power music

complaint in film. He's the composer behind the Blackbuster Black Panther series.

The Rocky Spinoffs Creed 1 and 2, and Christopher Nolan's 2020 time-bending

By Thriller, Tenet.

Now he's back with another Nolan collaboration, Oppenheimer.

It's part character study, part thriller, part historical drama that tells the life story of the father of the atomic bomb.

After the break, he joins us to talk about the soundtrack and his other work and what the right soundtrack can add to movies.

I'm Jen White. You're listening to the 1A podcast where we get to the heart of the story. We'll be back with more after this short break.

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Let's get into our conversation about the Oppenheimer soundtrack with Ludwig Gornson. He joins us from Sweden.

Ludwig, welcome back to the show. Thank you. It's great to be here.

How did you become a part of Oppenheimer?

I worked with Chris Nolan previously on Tenet. After Tenet, we kept in touch. We saw movies. We talked about music.

He's kind of a little secretive of him. He doesn't really say what he's working on.

I kind of got the phone call out of the blue one day. He's like, hey, you want to come by tomorrow and read the script for my new film.

That was my in on that.

And where does your scoring process begin? Because you read the script.

And I'm assuming at that point you say, yeah, I'm interested or no.

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