Wandavision

Composer
CHRISTOPHE BECK

Songwriters
KRISTEN ANDERSON-LOPEZ & ROBERT LOPEZ

Music Supervisors
DAVE JORDAN
SHANNON MURPHY

MODERATED BY TIM GREIVING (Film Music Journalist) 

Screening Link available upon Registration

YouTube Live Stream Q&A:
FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2021, 6:30PM PT

After losing her love, Vision, Wanda Maximoff undergoes a dissociative event and creates a world where he is alive and they can start a family. Fueled by Wanda’s comfort in sitcoms, her TV reality embodies an ever manageable suburban existence, but when Wanda’s denial is challenged, so is the reality. TV-PG | 50min

Award-winning composer Christophe Beck has a career that bridges genres and garners well-deserved acclaim. Beck displays his range from scoring Marvel Studios’ action-adventure Ant-Man to Fox’s film adaptation of Charles Schulz’s beloved comic strip Peanuts. Recent projects include Like a Boss, Walkaway Joe, The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two, and Free Guy, which is slated for release this year. The prolific composer scored the Oscar® and GRAMMY®-winning animated film Frozen and Frozen 2. Beck’s recent credits also include the documentary Watson, The Christmas Chronicles for Netflix, and Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp. He is the musical voice of iconic comedies of the last decade, including The Hangover, American Pie, Hot Tub Time Machine, and Pitch Perfect; poignant films, including Cake, starring Jennifer Anniston, and the true-life-based drama We Are Marshall; documentaries including Red Army and the award-winning Waiting for Superman; rom-coms, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Crazy, Stupid, Love; along with action films, including Year of the Dog and Edge of Tomorrow, and the drama/crime film American Made. Beck’s breakthrough success came by composing music for the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which he earned an Emmy®.  

Beck is unique in his versatile ability to develop the tone in any genre. His music combines a masterful use of complex dynamics to create tension and convey a vast spectrum of emotion. Beck’s scores add depth, intrigue, humor, and sentiment, and his music contributes powerfully to the aesthetic of each film he scores. 

Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (Episode-Specific Theme Songs by) are the Oscar®- and Grammy®-award winning, married songwriting team behind Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Frozen 2. They wrote the songs for the original Frozen, for which they won the Oscar for best original song for “Let it Go.” They also wrote the Oscar-winning song “Remember Me” from Disney and Pixar’s Coco, and adapted Frozen for the Broadway stage. Their original song “Into the Unknown” from Disney’s 2019 feature film Frozen 2 was also nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe®. 

 Lopez co-conceived and co-wrote the hit musicals Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon, both earning him Tony® Awards. Anderson-Lopez’s show In Transit made history as the first all a cappella musical to run on Broadway, after earning recognition at the Drama Desk, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel Awards for its Off-Broadway run. Lopez and Anderson-Lopez have written for television, film, and stage, including Finding Nemo: The Musical, songs for The Wonder Pets (two Emmy® Award wins), and the Winnie the Pooh animated film. Their original musical Up Here premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse. Graduates of Yale University and Williams College, respectively, Lopez and Anderson-Lopez now reside in Brooklyn, NY, with their two daughters.

Dave Jordan is the highest-grossing music supervisor in film history. His supervision credits include some of the most successful films and film franchises of all time, including Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man, Avengers, and Transformers. 

In 2001, Jordan founded Format Entertainment. Format has grown into the largest collection of theatrical and television music supervisors in the world. Format’s supervision core is reinforced by a robust infrastructure of creative, executive, and administrative individuals and resources allowing Format to thrive as a full-service, solutions-oriented creative agency. Format’s music supervision efforts have yielded numerous chart-topping albums including number one spots for the Guardians of the Galaxy, A Star is Born, Black Panther, and Pitch Perfect soundtracks. Recently, Format albums occupied an unprecedented four of the top five positions on the Billboard charts. Format has won multiple Grammys, American Music Awards, Guild of Supervisor Awards, and received several Emmy nominations.

Format’s clients are some of the most recognizable names in entertainment, media, advertising, and consumer brands, names such as Marvel Studios, Warner Consumer Products, and Spin Master. Format helps companies design clear and compelling sonic footprints across projects, platforms, and media to tell bold stories, strengthen identity, and develop consumer relevance and recognition. Format has crafted campaigns for flagship brands, such as Mattel’s iconic Barbie and Spin Master’s global sensation, Paw Patrol. Recognizing an industry void and seeing an opportunity he could deliver against, Jordan incorporated The Math Club, an original music creation company under the Format umbrella. By signing new and exciting talent and constantly reevaluating the media and music landscape, The Math Club provides a seamless and efficient experience for the film, television, and brand communities. The Math Club’s music serves as the backbone of some of television’s biggest hits and has earned thousands of major placements on shows and films such as This is Us, Euphoria, The Boys, Hustlers, Crazy Rich Asians, Dolemite Is My Name, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Format and The Math Club have worked on campaigns for brands such as BMW, Procter & Gamble, and McDonald’s. Jordan serves on the Los Angeles Board of Governors for the Grammy Committee, contributing to advocacy, education, and human service programs to improve the cultural condition and quality of life for music and its makers. 

Shannon Murphy is a music supervisor at Format Entertainment, with the company since 2015. She is one of the most experienced young supervisors working today. Shannon cut her teeth as a coordinator on a wide variety of projects. Ever since starting on Ant-Man in 2015, she has worked with Marvel Studios on films like Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, & Endgame, Spider-Man: Homecoming & Far From Home, Thor: Ragnarok, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Along the way, she has also worked on influential pictures with strong musical themes that presented unique challenges such as Universal’s Straight Outta Compton and Sing. Shannon has a range of supervision credits to her name, including the Netflix film, Love Guaranteed, as well as CW TV show, In the Dark. Currently, her primary focus revolves around the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Shannon is the head of music for Marvel Studios’ streaming TV series created for Disney+. She supervised the studio’s series, WandaVision, featuring original theme songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez and score by composer Christophe Beck. The song, “Agatha All Along”, from the series has landed on both the Billboard and iTunes charts, soaring to number 1 on the iTunes soundtrack chart and racking up streams in the millions on Spotify. Shannon’s passion for music and film has been a constant in her life. She specifically loves exploring all types of music, discovering new genres, learning of new artists, and finding ways she can work with others in using music to tell stories.

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