Does all of that seem a little too taxing, still? We admit, hanging around a casting agents for weeks on end just to get some vague spoilers for an upcoming blockbuster does seem like a fair bit of effort for not much of a pay off. Especially when you could be getting actual acting work in that time and appearing in those blockbusters! Which would probably entail you signing one of those NDA contract thingies we mentioned earlier, which would preclude you from leaking them. So here's the thing: just keep an eye out on the HMV website, and you'll find all the spoilers you could hope for. Movie scores tend to get released around about the time of the films they're soundtracking - obviously - but the tracklistings appear way before that, when the pre-orders appear on online stores like Amazon. And unless you're Michael Giacchino and you name each track in your score using some truly criminal punnage, then most of these tracklistings tend to have some pretty unimaginative titles. As in they're all pretty much named after the scenes the cues are used in. Which means that you can kind of, sort of piece together the basics of a film's plot based on the score before even seeing it. Seriously, a handful of the biggest blockbusters of the past few years have totally had important story beats ruined because of the tracklistings of their scores. Thanks to the Prometheus CD we learned early on that pretty much laid out the second and third acts, and Amazon managed to spill the beans of the closely-guarded Godzilla plot before that movie hit cinemas. Be warned, however: the studios are catching on. Marvel cleverly threw some red herrings at us by naming songs on the Captain America: The Winter Soldier score things like "Alexander Pierce is the Red Skull" and "Quills S.O.S." expressly to mess with us spoilery types. Which is probably the only thing weirder than discovering spoilers on a score's track listing in the first place - placing fake spoilers in a score's tracklisting.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
