Graeme Revell To Score Gotham

According to Film Music Reporter, seasoned film score composer Graeme Revell will be scoring Fox’s Gotham.  The New Zealander is no stranger to providing the musical backdrop to comic book properties as he’s been doing it for a while.

Graeme Revell’s first credit was 1989’s Dead Calm starring a fresh-faced Nicole Kidman.  He went on to score popular films such as Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990), Child’s Play 2 (1990), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), Boxing Helena (1993), The Crush (1993), and Hard Target (1993).  In 1994 he provided the musical score for The Crow.  This would not be his only foray into comic books and superheroes.  With a career spanning over twenty-five years, Revell has also provided the music for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1995), The Crow: City of Angels (1996), Spawn (1997), Daredevil (2003), Sin City (2005), and film and TV shows too numerous to list in multiple genres.

Revell’s style is said to be predominantly electronic and computer-based.   And he often couples that style with classical instruments which is not unlike Hans Zimmer and Mark Isham.  From the movies he’s scored, I can say that Revell is the perfect choice to bring a modern, dark, suspenseful mood to Gotham.  Let’s keep our fingers crossed that Gotham will have an actual intro that is similar to TV shows of a bygone era versus the short five-second title cards we’ve seen in modern programming.  Yes, I’m looking at you Arrow.

Gotham premieres this fall on Fox.