. It earned $84 million on a $30 million production budget, but Sicario's mass critical praise and positive word-of-mouth continued to build beyond its theatrical release and saw the film receive three Oscar nominations, including for cinematographer Roger Deakins and late composer Johann Johannsson
On a sad note, the late, great Johann Johannsson's seminal score provided Sicario with a magical quality thats hard to describe. After his sudden death in February 2018, it was later announced that Hildur Guonadottir, would score Day of the Soldado. Was Johann attached to score your film until his
Yes! I chose Hildur because shes a classical composer like Johann Johannsson. She also loves to play electronic music by way of real instruments. I think that was the key to a really interesting score.
