Carter Burwell is not only one of the best film composers working today, he’s also one of the most in-demand. Looking at his filmography, the list of directors he works with time and again is incredible: Joel and Ethan Coen, Todd Haynes, Martin McDonagh, Spike Jonze, Bill Condon—the list goes on. Which is why it was such a big deal that Burwell made the jump to episodic television recently with two very different projects. First, Burwell composed the score for Apple TV+’s star-studded drama series The Morning Show, starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. Then …
We here at Collider are happy to exclusively debut a clip from Carter Burwell’s score for the stop-motion animated action-adventure film Missing Link. The movie hails from the wildly talented artists at LAIKA, whose previous films include Coraline, ParaNorman, and Kubo and the Two Strings. For Missing Link, director Chris Butler (ParaNorman) decided to craft a throwback action-adventure movie in the vein of Indiana Jones, albeit with a twist. Zach Galifianakis voices Mr. Link, a creature tired of living a solitary life in the Pacific Northwest who enlists a fearless explorer (Hugh Jackman) to guide him …