Like Hiccup and Toothless, Powell’s Dragon score frequently soars.
WhenJohn Powell embarked on scoring DreamWorks’ 2010 Cressida Cowell adaptation, he knew one thing it needed: an axe. It was a rock guitar that cracked open How To Train Your Dragon’s score for the composer, whose previous work had ranged from animation (Antz, Shrek) to action (Bourne). Powered by metal chords, drum loops and big orchestrations, ‘Test Drive’ took wing as a whopper of a theme, proving this lizard could fly.