So we did it with the USC Marching Band and then, when we were scoring it at Abbey Road, they did some more tracks and layers.ĪVC: This was a moment that clearly needed a specific type of song.ĬW: Yeah, definitely. And from the very beginning we had that opening hunt and we wanted it to be a kind of stand alone setpiece and Alan said, “What about the USC Marching Band ?” We wanted it to feel almost like a football game and he came up with that idea. Kirk: Yeah, early on we had said something like a marching band type of thing and it always stuck and we were always talking about “Tusk.” And we were talking with Alan and he was involved from the very beginning. I wanted to ask you about the music because the opening sequence has an orchestral version of the Fleetwood Mac song “Tusk.” Where did that come from? It’s easily one of the most visually inventive and genuinely heartfelt movies to come out of DreamWorks Animation, and we were lucky enough to speak to Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders, co-directors of “The Croods,” about the development of the movie, the differences between DreamWorks Animation and Pixar, who their favorite cinematic cavemen are, how Guillermo del Toro and Roger Deakins helped, and why they utilized Fleetwood Mac’s “Tusk” in the score. ![]() A zippy, prehistoric-set riff on the family-road-trip comedy, it features a clan of cavemen (and, it should be noted, cavewomen) who are forced to evolve after cataclysmic events threaten their way of life. ![]() ![]() ![]() This weekend, DreamWorks Animation’s new feature “The Croods” was unleashed in theaters nationwide.
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