Simon Franglen

If you’d like to listen to the Avatar: Fire And Ash album, here are all the links If your streaming service includes Dolby Atmos, these are my preferred method to listen. They are as mixed for the film - more dynamic range, less compression. linktr.ee/hh5qvmpwch

@calestyo It’s a while since we did those previews. I think there were tweaks to the scenes between those being finished and the final A3 master. Not massive, but there could be a few small changes at the start and end

Maybe the source of Pandoras' musical soul, @simonfranglen, can shed some light on this... That was about two weeks ago when I had my most recent private Avatar 2 screening... and since Disney keeps sending the October version of it to "my" cinema, I get the A3 preview every time (before usually having a real A3 screening right after 🤭😇). Anyway... it took me quite a while to notice, but I think the preview version with the Mangkwan attack features a different version of the music than what's used in the actual film scene?! Is that just because of cuts or did you make real changes just for the preview? 🤔 PS: Did I already mention how much I love your music? (I mean like in the last 24h or so 😅)

@TheStingisBack @Film_Music_Love A lot of frogs out that night

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Disney asked me to release only a single album for #AvatarFireAndAsh They agreed to make it long - almost 30 minutes longer than the A2 extended release. This scene and cue unfortunately didn’t make it onto the album, I’m sorry. I agree the whole scene is wonderful. If you want to hear the cue’s genesis - check Way of Water - Quaritch looking at his skeleton and skull. This is The Fallen Soldier theme. It felt appropriate for Q’s speech.

@simonfranglen I don't think the music from this scene is in the official soundtrack, along with the variant of Gathering all the Clans, will we get that in an Original Score, the same way we got one for The Way of Water?

This is probably the best scene in the entire movie. The conversation between Jake and Quaritch is so interesting and I think the movie would have been more interesting (and better) if they had more moments like this one. #AvatarFireandAsh

@Rdardo @DylanColeArt @BProcterDesign That’s what I thought ;-) All good. It was an excellent night

@simonfranglen @DylanColeArt @BProcterDesign Ok, it looks like it was Tron Ares and F4 right? sorry.

@COOLMusicAgency @IFMCA Thank you. I’m chuffed

Huge congratulations to @simonfranglen on his three @IFMCA Awards wins for 'Avatar: Fire and Ash'!

Thank you so much to the @IFMCA Winning score of the year, composition of the year, and best sci-fi and fantasy score is rather awesome. I’ll go find something old and Scottish to celebrate with. 🥃🥃🥃 Simon

Me - Avatar: Fire and Ash open.spotify.com/album/0GBCGznI…

John Powell & Stephen Schwartz - Wicked: For Good open.spotify.com/album/1sXAUIOZ…

Thanks so much to my @ASCAP composer colleagues for the nomination, that’s fabulous . If you can vote there’s great stuff here that everyone should listen to, so I’m linking to all these excellent scores below.

@TheStingisBack Oh Sting, This is Leone on another level. It’s a big screen film. The cinematography, the sound, are exquisite. Arguably Morricone’s best score - Jill’s theme is heart wrenching.

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@grantkirkhope But eggnog, really?

It’s weird, people think that they can criticize what I do and that somehow I’m not allowed to respond, that’s not how it works. If you have a go at me I’ll probably have a go at you. Seems fair to me

@grantkirkhope @mmuk64 Thanks Grant !

@simonfranglen @mmuk64 Nice one Simon! 🏆

Thank you so much to the Movie Music UK awards 2025 for score of the year. I appreciate the level of detail put into the original review. This combined with the staggering quantity of scores that @mmuk64 listened to really makes this very special. moviemusicuk.us/2026/02/06/mov…

This is lovely. Thank you so much to the @IFMCA for the four nominations for #AvatarFireAndAsh including score and composer of the year.

@calestyo @avatardayevent Good idea. I’ll do that tomorrow

@simonfranglen @avatardayevent Would you tell your fav list for A2? 😊

@simonfranglen made a superb score for Fire and Ash (and Way of Water!) so...what's your favourite track on it?

@thefateofkathyh That is pretty awesome. Thank you