Highlights from the Grammy-nominated music supervisor and producer’s career includes four of the top nine highest-grossing films of all time, including “Avatar,” “Titanic,” “Jurassic World” and “Furious 7.” The latter featured “See You Again,” by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth, and continues to break records.
Ahead of that, Knobloch talks with Variety about the formula behind the franchise’s music and its soundtracks, as well as how he navigated “F9’s” delay due to the pandemic.
Putting an artist on a song and putting that song in the movie, it’s almost like the auxiliary casting of a cast member.
That can be a tricky thing to do from movie to movie, just the timeframe that it takes to go from one installment of the franchise to the next.
Thematically, it’s a pretty safe bet that anything to do with the kind of the ride or die, teamwork, family vibe and the adjectives and themes that you would use to describe “Fast and Furious” overall, go into all the songs.
You’ll see weight thrown behind “Fast Lane” by Don Toliver, Lil Durk and Latto which has a big play at the end of the movie.