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Alan Silvestri may have composed both Captain America: The First Avenger and Marvel's The Avengers Assemble before returning to score both Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, but Brian Tyler and Danny Elfman's score for Avengers: Age of Ultron really began the stronger sense of continuity in themes that the franchise has otherwise struggled with, as Elfman evolved the Avengers themes by combining them and the new material created for that film into each other as if they were one, and Tyler reprised his themes for both Iron Man and Thor from his scores to both Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World, respectively, as well as Silvestri's Captain America themes from Captain America: The First Avenger, and, while brief and quick due to the action sequences, Craig Armstrong's Hulk themes from The Incredible Hulk. The only previously established themes that Silvestri reprised when he scored both Marvel's The Avengers Assemble and Infinity War (outside of the Avengers themes as he initially established them in the latter film) were his Captain America theme and Tesseract motif (which later turned out to be the Infinity Stones' motif), and although he expanded on that in Endgame to reference other characters' and concepts' materials, it still didn't quite reach the more dynamic levels that Brian Tyler and Danny Elfman did for Age of Ultron. Given the studio's unfortunate indifference towards continuity, I guess it shouldn't be surprising if Silvestri returned the next two films, but Tyler and Elfman's example is great that it'd be awesome to see them return for it. Otherwise, given his work on Doctor Strange, this franchise's Spider-Man films, and Thor: Love and Thunder with Nami Melumad, Michael Giacchino seems to have become the other favorite composer these days. Obviously, we don't know yet as they haven't yet announced who the composer(s) will be, but the idea of who'll compose the score keeps piquing my interests due to both my ear and love for music and my drumming ability. Overall, I just hope it'll be someone who'll acknowledge continuity.
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