John Powell – How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
John Powell is here with a brand new album with 18 songs titled “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Powell was an accomplished violinist as a child, wrote music for commercials out of school, and assisted composer Patrick Doyle in the early 1990s. He moved to the U.S. in 1997, co-wrote the score for Antz, and quickly became one of the most desirable, versatile, and exciting composers in town. His infectious score for How to Train Your Dragon earned him his first Academy Award nomination.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Hiccup who is now chief and ruler of Berk alongside Astrid, has created a gloriously chaotic dragon utopia. When the sudden appearance of female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their village has ever faced, Hiccup and Toothless must leave the only home they’ve known and journey to a hidden world thought only to exist in myth. As their true destines are revealed, dragon and rider will fight together—to the very ends of the Earth—to protect everything they’ve grown to treasure.
John Powell is become the go-to writer for family animated films, scoring such hits as Shrek, Chicken Run, Ice Age (2 & 3), Bolt, Rio (1 & 2) Happy Feet (1 &2) and Kung Fu Panda (1 & 2). His pulsating action music has provided the fuel for Hancock, Green Zone, Stop Loss, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and The Italian Job. His music has also sweetened the romance of Two Weeks Notice and P.S. I Love You, empowered X-Men: The Last Stand, lent tenderness to I Am Sam and gripping drama to United 93.
Powell has also lent his voice to the score of Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, and Ice Age 4: Continental Drift. Most recently, Powell completed the scores to Rio 2, directed by Carlos Saldanha, and the critically acclaimed DreamWorks’ film How To Train Your Dragon 2. His most recent works were Warner Bros. Pan starring Hugh Jackman, Jason Bourne, and BlueSky Animation’s Ferdinand.
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