Today, composer Dave Porter and music supervisor Gabe Hilfer explain the music ofThe Disaster Artist.

Ahead, Hilfer and Porter discuss some of their keyDisaster Artistcontributions.

Theyre in the car and hes singing along.

We added that later the singing came later.

We added that in post-production because it was that much funnier.

No one in this movie was trying to be cool.

Never Gonna Give You Up was definitely on the list.

The movie takes place around 1999 and we had sent some ideas that were more specifically of that time.

We kept landing on the idea it should be something Tommy would love.

It would be more of a fun thing.

We got to explore a rarely chosen early EDM world.

GABE HILFER: The initial montage was once a little bit longer and the part got cut down.

I had never had experience trying to clear a Kylie Minogue song, but we didnt have any trouble.

Thats probably my favorite use in the movie.

I might steal that idea later on for myself for another thing.

GABE HILFER: We tried a lot of stuff there.

The one that just stuck was Epic.

It looked so good in the slow-motion.

Once we have the right song in there, everybody sees it and theyre like, Thats the one.

GABE HILFER: It was like, How much do we want to play into the lyrics?

How much do we want to play into the tone and vibe of the song?

It just played with the sincerity and the truth with which Tommy presented himself.

The coolest part of the story is Tommy never thinks hes making anything but a masterpiece.

The song is pump-up music for the first day of making the greatest movie of all time.

For me, this was a very different project and a completely different movie than the original.

For me, the bible for the whole thing was Gregs book.

It was tricky because music can have a big influence on tone.

The tone of this movie was a really narrow line to walk.

The heart of the story, to me, is their friendship and their aspirations.

That they have those aspirations so many of us have.

That, although it may have come in an ass-backward way, they succeeded.

That was the role of the score to play and reinforce.There is no more Hollywood story than this one.

I wanted it to feel a little naively optimistic in a way youd find Hollywood scores from decades ago.

The Disaster Artistis out now; Dave Porters score is available now andstreaming on Spotify.

Listen to a curated playlist ofDisaster Artistmusic below.