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You may not know him by name … but you definitely know his music. Academy Award winning film composer Michael Giacchino has written some of the most recognizable themes in film and on television in the last decade including Lost , Mission: Impossible III , The Incredibles , Star Trek , Cloverfield , Ratatouille , and Up , which earned him his Oscar. He’s also composed the scores for two of the biggest hits of the summer, director J.J. Abrams Super 8 , and the Pixar sequel Cars 2 , which opened last weekend and earned over $66 million in its debut. I think I did have the advantage of knowing that the film was not going to be like the first one. It was going to be very different because it was going to be so new and they were going to all these different places doing things they hadn't done in the first film. Randy set up the most beautiful musical landscape for the first film. He did such an amazing job. I'm a huge fan of Randy Newman . He's like, to me, one of the best storytellers working today. Not just musical, he's just a great storyteller, his songs are incredible, and his music is wonderful. I felt like “Wow, I don't want to lose what he did for Radiator Springs as far as a feeling. That was always important to both John and I. When you're in Radiator Springs, it should feel like home, like you've been there before. So certainly the instrumentation and the orchestration I wanted to feel of that world so that was nice to be able to go and do that. But then once they're off in Finn's world, Finn McMissile's world is a totally different thing. It needed to be, it needed to be its own crazy, energetic thing. And then that's how the surf music came out of that. It wasn't like, “Oh we need to do spy music!” The second I saw the film it just reminded me of what it was like, the feeling I got from the film reminded me of the same feeling I got doing that as a kid. Riding around the neighborhood on a bike, listening to that kind of music. I turned to John ( Lasseter )   and I was like, “ John , we have to do this kind of thing, what do you think of this?” I said, “I don't even know what to call it? Is there such a thing as British surf guitar? I don't know, but I think that would be Finn McMissile's thing, British surf guitar.

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Must Watch: Fantastic Trailer for 'Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol'!

After John Woo delivered a crazy, over-the-top action fest with Mission Impossible 2, JJ Abrams got the franchise back on track with his fantastic spy thriller M:i:III. Now, Abrams is back producing Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol



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Finally, you are doing the scores for the upcoming films John Carter and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, so what can you tell us about the tone and the mood that your music will set for those films? Giacchino: You know what, it is hard to say.



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Simon Pegg: 'World's End draft before Star Trek 2'

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Although the trailer is action packed, I can't helped but think it's all about the "Tom Cruise Show" and everybody else is a secondary thought. From being thrown forward as a result of a bomb blast, involved in a high speed car chase and hanging off the edge of a building - one wonders whether Cruise is rehashing what he has already done in the previous "M:I" films.


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Mission: Impossible II (2000) - IMDb
Directed by John Woo. With Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames. ... His mission is made impossible due to the fact that he is not the only person after ...

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Official site for Mission: Impossible III (M:i:III), the third one in the series, once again starring Tom Cruise as secret agent Ethan Hunt. Also stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Monaghan, and Ving Rhames. Directed by J.J. Abrams.

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Starring Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, and Emmanuelle Beart.