Matthew Margeson

Matthew Margeson (born June 9, 1980 in Brick Township, New Jersey) is an American composer who has collaborated with the music composer Henry Jackman. He is a member of Remote Control Productions formed by the composer Hans Zimmer.

Biography
Since then, he has scored the "Transformers Prime" TV series (with the composrt Brian Tyler), "PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale" (with John King), the bad behavior of HBO’s "Eastbound and Down" (with Wayne Kramer and Joseph Stephens) and the gripping music playing over the Universal Studios tram during your studio tour. But if there’s been one fortuitous moment in his career, then it was being taken under the wing of Henry Jackman. Now a creative relationship that’s seen him work on such scores for his mentor as the animated films "Monsters vs. Aliens", "X-Men First Class" and "Wreck-It Ralph" leaps off the roof to take down evil with their first officially co-credited score for "Kick-Ass 2" (with the composer Henry Jackman).

Knowing full well the movie’s geek-iconic themes after doing arrangements for the first soundtrack, he helps bring back the noble strings, slow-burn guitars, melancholy piano melody and rocking heroics for a post-adolescent team, who are now joined by a whole new squad of homegrown superhero wannabes. It’s a musical clash between homegrown justice league and sinister supreme that not only plays both the comedy, and true heroism of people who are superheroes and villains in their own minds (and sometimes ability), but also captures the emotional stakes of costumed shenanigans that net violently lethal consequences. The end result is a "Kick-Ass" score that truly delivers on its title with a real-deal superhero score that’s bigger and better the second time out – as fresh as it is gloriously the same. And most importantly, it’s a masked identity that firmly shows he is the composer of first rank comic book music, as well as being worthy of getting his own film scoring issue as well.