Joel P West on Composing the Music of ‘Shang Chi’ and Tony Leung’s Villainous Score

variety.com:

Jon Burlingame It’s not often that the villain’s theme is transformed into the hero’s music in a comic book movie. But that’s what happens in “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” and there’s solid reasoning behind it.Composer Joel P West spent two full years thinking about, writing and recording the score for the latest Marvel movie.

He and director Destin Daniel Cretton have done five features together, and he says: “Our music conversation is an offand-on thing that happens during the screenwriting process, all the way through to the end of the edit, as I have ideas and as he has time.

It’s an ebb-and flow of talking about it and developing it over every chapter of the filmmaking process.” In “Shang-Chi,” the ruthless, powerful.