Jonny Greenwood, the guitarist and backbone of Radiohead, will be in charge of the music for Paul Thomas Anderson’s upcoming “Licorice Pizza,” which, according to his recently deleted tweet, is mostly composed of ‘70s songs and a few newly written cues. Greenwood went on to describe the film as a “giant PTA-shaped treat.”
Greenwood has been composing his iconic brand of violin-tinged scores for nearly two decades. He’s collaborated with PTA on four films, scoring 2007’s “There Will Be Blood”, 2012’s “The Master”, 2014’s “Inherent Vice”, and 2018’s “Phantom Thread” — the latter for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.
Greenwood has been very busy of late, composing the scores for two of the festival season’s most praised films: Jane Campion’s “Power of the Dog,” and Pablo Larrain’s “Spencer.” However, it’s his iconic collaborations with PTA that have sealed his reputation as one of the great film composers of the modern-era.