The teaser for Behemoth didn’t do anything for the first 30 seconds. Yeah, I like Pedro Pascal. He’s fun to watch. Is he a bit overexposed these days? Sure, but then again, so are Tom Holland, Zendaya and Robert Pattinson. Doesn’t mean they can’t act. Still, it wasn’t holding me. 

“This is going to be another Tar, isn’t it?” I said to myself. 

Then Tony Gilroy’s name popped up. I leaned forward in my chair. I was like Robert Downey, Jr. and Robert Rusler’s characters in John Hughes’ Weird Science, watching Lisa pass them by on the escalator at the Mall. I love and own Michael Clayton, and was on board for both seasons of Disney Plus’ Andor. His stories aren’t the most exciting, admittedly (his brother Dan handled that better in Nightcrawler), but I love the conversations his characters have. 

As the music played, I started smiling and quickly opened another browser window. Tony Gilroy usually works with James Newton Howard, and as far as I knew, I hadn’t heard a Howard score since maybe Malecifent, Red Sparrow, maybe? . The score of this film may be larger than the story itself. Not only is James Newton Howard involved, but so are Alan Silvestri (The Avengers), Michael Giacchino (The Fantastic Four: First Steps), Henry Jackman (X-Men: First Class), and Michael Abels (Us & Nope), along with Emily Bear (Our Little Secret), Brandon Roberts (Underwater and Andor), Nami Melumad (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) and Lukas Frank (East of Wall). I’m curious to hear what kind of soundtrack that could be. James Newton Howard has been known to work with other composers, like with Hans Zimmer on Christopher Nolan’s first two Batman films.

As for the film itself, it looks like Pascal’s cellist has a number of issues going on. On hand are Olivia Wilde (Booksmart), Will Arnett (The Lego Batman Movie), and Eva Victor (Dating & New York), Margarita Levieva (Adventureland) , Matthew Lillard (Five Nights at Freddy’s) and JoBeth Williams (Poltergeist). It’s hard to say what it’s all about in just a teaser, but we’ll find out if when it’s released this December. 

Enjoy!