James Gunn’s Superman is punk rock, but the film’s John Williams-inspired musical score is more traditional. Composed by Gunn’s two-time collaborator John Murphy (The Suicide Squad and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3) and David Fleming (Wonder Woman 1984 and Dune: Part Two), the film’s sound is sweeping, epic, emotional, and heroic. Looking over the Superman soundtrack tracklist below, fans might notice just two songs are featured in the 33-track playlist: Noah and the Whale’s “5 Years Time” and Teddybears’ “Punkrocker” (feat. Iggy Pop).
Gunn’s Awesome Mixes from the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy were chock-full of ’60s and ’70s hits, and Gunn infused the soundtracks of The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker with needle drops like Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues,” Jim Carroll Band’s “People Who Died,” and, for his HBO Max series, Wig Wam’s “Do Ya Wanna Taste It?” and ’80s hair metal songs.
For Superman (in theaters July 11), Gunn wanted to incorporate Williams’ iconic, soaring Superman theme from the 1978 Richard Donner movie as a way of “harkening back to the past” while having Murphy’s music give the new Man of Tomorrow his own sound.
“I said, ‘I want to use a version of the Williams theme, but I want to do our own version of it.’ And so that’s what you hear,” Gunn told ComicBook and other outlets during a press event in December. “What’s really amazing is how that leads into a lot of other pieces, some of which are coming back to the Williams theme, but some of which are purely John Murphy, goes into that, comes back out, and it’s used beautifully throughout the movie.”
Gunn also curated Spotify playlists inspired by the characters of Superman, featuring songs not used in the movie. Lois Lane’s punk playlist includes Against Me’s “I Was a Teenage Anarchist” and PUP’s “DVP,” Clark Kent’s positive but edging-on-edgy taste consists of the likes of Spoon’s “The Underdog” and Jimmy Eat World’s “The Middle,” and Lex Luthor’s selfie-snapping girlfriend, Eve Teschmacher, listens to girl pop hits like Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “bad idea right?”
Listen to the Superman score with playlists for the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Gunn’s “Inspired By” mix below.
Superman Playlist
Superman Soundtrack
Home
Last Son
Hammer of Boravia
LuthorCorp
The Daily Planet
Lois & Clark
Eyes Up Here
Justice Gang vs. Kaiju
Intruders
The Message
Secret Harem
The Real Punk Rock
Pocket Universe
“5 Years Time” by Noah and the Whale
Something Like a Sun
Jailbreak
The River of Pi
Take the T-Craft
Your Choices, Your Actions
Raising the Flag
The Rift
Bases Loaded
Speeding Bullet
Remote Control
Upgrade
Driven by Envy
Look Up
Being Human
Luthor the Traitor
Metropolis
Walking on Air
“Punkrocker” by Teddybears (feat. Iggy Pop)
The Mighty Crabjoys Theme
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