Video The Music Behind The Amazing Spider-Man 2 feat Pharrell

For the film's music, the filmmakers are experimenting with a very unusual arrangement. Marc Webb has turned to Oscar® winning composer Hans Zimmer to form a supergroup, including Pharrell Williams (possibly the hottest talent in music today, who had a hand in the two biggest hits of 2013), The Smiths' Johnny Marr, Incubus' Michael Einziger and JunkieXL -- among others -- to work together on the music for the film.

The result is a score by a band: Hans Zimmer and The Magnificent Six featuring Pharrell Williams and Johnny Marr.

Zimmer says, "Marc and I were talking about Spider-Man, and as the word got out many of our musicians-friends started calling us up, wanting to be a part of it simply because they love Spider-Man. That was the thing that united all of us -- the great love for Spider-Man. With all of these hugely talented people wanting to join us, it was Marc who said, 'Why not start a band?'"

"Sound and image are inextricably linked," says Webb. "I can't think of one without the other. So when I was putting this film together, I wanted a musical collaborator who could bring in a lot of different voices to create a big sonic landscape. I also wanted rock music -- the film takes place in New York, where punk rock started, where hip-hop started, where there's a huge electronic music scene, so through the music, we could make the film feel real and contemporary."

"I felt that, for me, superhero movies needed a new approach," Zimmer continues. "The ideas really came from a conversation Pharrell and I had over a year ago on the nature of what makes music resonate in our lives. Spider-Man is a young man, just graduating college. He has big things going on in his life, but he deals with them in a different way than someone older, and deals with things with a sense of youthful humor and a New York young man's fearless attitude. I don't think he hears Wagnerian horns and Mahlerian strings in his head describing his emotions. He expresses himself through rock 'n roll."

With that in mind, Zimmer and his fellow musicians started from scratch. "Spider-Man didn't have as much of a musical identity as we wanted him to have -- he deserves an iconic quality. I wanted to play America but a new America. Marc wanted a fanfare and it took me a while to figure out how to reconcile that idea in my head with my 'band' approach, which ultimately meant a great soloist -- a great 'front man,' not an orchestral section of trumpets. I thought of my favorite trumpet player, Arturo Sandoval. We took Johnny Marr's kinetic playing and juxtaposed it against Arturo's heroic tone to give wings to the tune. We did it in a very New York way; two cultures colliding, two strong musical personalities coming together to give you something fresh."

So, Zimmer and his band began a reinvention of film music -- an approach 180 degrees from the way it's usually done. "We really embraced a rock and roll ethos," says Zimmer. "We said, 'Let's start by writing an album's worth of songs, and then derive the score from the melodies that are in those songs."

To achieve that, Zimmer pulled together some of the reigning legends in their fields. "I wanted to create the chaos where everybody has to get to know each other through playing together. It's the easiest thing in the world for musicians to re-capture the feeling and energy of who you where, as twenty-year-olds and in your first band (well, Andrew K and Steve Mazzaro are twenty-year olds...). We had Johnny Marr, Pharrell Williams, and Mike Einziger; Ann Marie Simpson, who's a fabulous violinist; Steve Lipson, who was engineering and producing; Junkie XL, who can do so many things, but quickly realized he should be playing bass, so he grabbed a bass and now he's the bass player; Andy Page, a brilliant electronic musician. We just started jamming with Marc in the room, coming up with ideas like a garage-band, coming up with the sound of the movie. It was never about famous names. It was about them all being great musicians and bringing together that generous, playful spirit that has made them into famous names." The Magnificent Six are Pharrell Williams, Johnny Marr, Michael Einziger, Junkie XL, Andrew Kawczynski, and Steve Mazzaro.

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