Composer Steven Price on Scoring Sacrifice in Fury

It’s a rare thing for a composer to begin work on a film before the film has wrapped. Rarer still for that composer to find himself on set, watching the action he will underlay with music unfold before his eyes. Yet very little about the making of David Ayer’s World War II film Fury was typical, and for Oscar-winning composer Steven Price (Gravity), this meant getting a chance to be a part of the filmmaking process as it was happening.

World War II Veterans Helped Fuel Fury‘s Realism

The most all encompassing war in history has been depicted on screen countless times. Filmmakers have been portraying the horrors, and heroes, of the "good" war, from D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge to Pearl Harbor, from every conceivable angle. In just six years, from 1939 to 1945, World War II took the lives of more than sixty million people, some 2.5% of the global population, and filmmakers have been grappling with the immensity of the war ever since.

Interstellar, Noah, Fury & More: 2014 Movie Preview

Now that we’ve put a bow on one of the greatest years in recent film history, it’s time to look ahead at the slate of films coming out this year.

We're taking just a small bite here, and we're breaking it down by four genres that have a robust selection of films coming out—science fiction, action/adventure, superhero and historical/period pieces.

Science Fiction

There are a lot of really exciting projects in the sci-fi genre from some very talented directors and huge stars,