The fourth installment of the Transformers series, Transformers: Age of Extinction, will be getting the Skrillex treatment with the EDM kingpin revealing that he’s currently working on the sound design for the studio tentpole.
In an in-depth interview with Billboard, the dubstep superstar said he is currently creating “the craziest Skrillex sounds I could ever make” for the Michael Bay-directed Transformers flick, but offered up no further details.
Skrillex, real name Sonny Moore, hinted that he had some other undisclosed film-scoring projects in the works and opened up about his side-project, called Jack U, with longtime friend and collaborator Diplo. “I’ve just known him for so long, and we’ve made so many records together,” Skrillex said. “It’s just a lot of fun for him and I to get in the studio and make jokes and just really try to come up with the most annoying sounds ever.”
“What we try to do is make the stupidest thing ever and make it actually work — that’s our only thing,” he continued. “The thing about the music I make and the music he makes is that even though it might sound different, sonically, we always take this, like, fun approach to making music rather than taking it too seriously. So we’ll see what comes out of this.”
Earlier this month it was announced that Transformers director Michael Bay had commissioned Las Vegas-based outfit Imagine Dragons to compose several original songs for the blockbuster. The Grammy Award-winners have already penned the track Battle Cry, which will serve as the film’s main theme song.
“I remember being drawn to the emotion of Demons and Radioactive the first time I heard those songs, and I knew I wanted that same energy and heart for this movie,” said Bay about the band. “They’ve created a really epic, otherworldly sound for Battle Cry.”
Transformers: Age of Extinction is the fourth film in Michael Bay’s global blockbuster franchise and reportedly the first in a whole new trilogy. It will star Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Nicola Peltz and Kelsey Grammer. The film is due for cinematic release late June this year.
