Overview
- Universal released a behind-the-scenes featurette that on Thursday showed Ludwig Göransson and musicians playing early excerpts from the score and documented their instrument reconstruction work.
- Göransson and specialists rebuilt replicas of the aulos and the lyre and experimented with playing methods because original reeds and techniques do not survive in the archaeological record.
- Musicians described using ancient artifacts, iconography and written sources to guide construction and to approximate how Bronze Age instruments might have sounded.
- The score is the third collaboration between Göransson and Christopher Nolan and is being foregrounded alongside the film's nearly three-hour IMAX presentation and star-studded cast led by Matt Damon.
- By emphasizing reconstructed ancient instruments in marketing, the film aims to deepen audience immersion and could boost the score's awards profile while shaping how studios sell craft elements for tentpole releases.