The Fantastic Four: First Steps is Michael Giacchino ’s seventh score for Marvel , including three Spider-Mans, Doctor Strange , Thor: Love and Thunder and Werewolf By Night , which he also directed.

Or, is it his eighth? Giacchino said during a panel at Deadline’s Sound & Screen: Film event that he essentially wrote two complete scores.

“I actually wrote a whole other score for this film that you probably won’t ever hear,” Giacchino said. “I just remember seeing it for the first time with the music and something didn’t feel right.”

Giacchino wrote a lot of the initial score prior to principal photography. He joined the project when Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige asked him to compose music for the film’s Comic-Con presentation. By the time they filmed, he had written the t

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