How Warner Bros. Should Have Made Justice League
2. It Needed A More Memorable Soundtrack
When Joss Whedon took up the Justice League hotseat, one of the changes he made was swapping original composer Junkie XL out for Danny Elfman, which sounded like a good move at the time, but the tunesmith failed to bring his A game.
Despite his effective use of the classic 1989 Batman score and Wonder Woman's bass-heavy theme, the movie is almost devoid of memorable music and sounds little more than passable in most scenes. The Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg deserved their own theme tunes, but it seems that's a privilege only granted to DC Comics' holy trinity.
Musically, the film just chugs along, and perhaps the reason for that is the amount of time Elfman had to put his score together. Like Whedon, he joined the project late in the day and had only a matter of months to firm up his compositions.
Previous superhero films like Guardians of the Galaxy and Thor: Ragnarok have shown what a key role music can play within this genre, so it was disappointing to hear little of any substance in Justice League.