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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Discuss Scoring Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Challengers’ in Featurette: ‘It’s About the Excitement’ (EXCLUSIVE)


Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross discuss scoring Luca Guadagnino's new film 'Challengers.'

In it, former doubles partners Patrick Zweig (Josh O’Connor) and Art Donaldson (Mike Faist) face off in a challengers match years after they fell out over their pursuit of a promising young star named Tashi Duncan ( Zendaya). Inspired by Berlin techno and ‘90s rave music, the score amplifies the stress and strain of the scenes at hand, lending an urgency to the film that already teeters on the precipice of anxiety. A rendition “Compress / Repress,” which features Reznor’s vocals and was co-written with Guadagnino, was included on “[Mixed],” but viewers will have to wait until the end of the film to hear the original version.

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