Original score from the 2024 sci-fi thriller feature film directed by Mikael Håfström, starring Casey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne and Emily Beecham, produced by Astral Pictures and released by Bleecker Street (USA) and Signature Entertainment (UK).

THE STORY: An astronaut struggles to maintain his grip on reality aboard a possibly fatally compromised mission to Saturn’s moon, Titan.

THE SCORE: “Slingshot presented an interesting challenge: How do you write music for a protagonist slowly losing his mind? We follow John, an astronaut aboard a mission to Saturn’s moon, Titan. The journey takes years, and spending a lot of his time in artificial sleep, John struggles to maintain his grip on reality when awake. He remembers Zoe, a woman he left behind on Earth, while he also has to deal with growing tensions between his two co-members aboard the space station, until things eventually escalate. Musically, this film lets me tick a lot of boxes: it’s a psychological thriller set in space, at times moving into tender romance, existential drama and even body horror. The main theme, which opens this album, is the emotional center-piece of the score, aiming to capture both the larger-than-life meaning of this mission to Titan, the commitment it takes, as well as John’s sense of loneliness, isolation and longing. As the story evolves, I’m working with different melodic fragments and arpeggios that start to shift or overlap, and organic sounds that begin to warp and deteriorate. There’s a constant struggle between control and escalation in his mind.” – Steffen Thum

THE COMPOSER: With over 70 credits to his name, Steffen Thum has garnered extensive experience across high profile studio films, TV series and ad campaigns, as well as independent cinema and celebrated shorts. He is best known for his work on feature films Crawl, Stockholm Bloodbath, Looking Up and Warning Shot, among others. He first started a career in film post production before making his way into music, studying media composition and audio production in Germany as well as film scoring in Los Angeles, where he moved in 2013. In 2014, Steffen accepted a position at Remote Control Productions in Santa Monica, working closely with top composers Lorne Balfe, Hans Zimmer and others, providing additional music for a diverse range of titles, including Top Gun: Maverick, Mission Impossible: Fallout, Black Widow, Bad Boys for Life, Ad Astra, The Lego Batman Movie, as well as high-profile TV series like The Crown, Hunters and His Dark Materials. Since 2020, Steffen works independently from his studio in Berlin, Germany. Recently, Steffen has contributed music to Benjamin Wallfisch’s scores for Twisters and Alien: Romulus.

MMS24033 SLINGSHOT (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Music Composed by STEFFEN THUM
Score Produced by LORNE BALFE
Release date: August 30, 2024