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Musician Andrew Wyatt says fans won’t be disappointed by the soundtrack for Greta Gerwig’s upcoming The Chronicles of Narnia adaptation.
Wyatt, who is co-writing music for the film with Mark Ronson, caught up with PEOPLE exclusively at the Avatar: Fire and Ash premiere in Los Angeles on Dec. 1. During the conversation he shared that while he “can’t really speak too much about it because it’s [in the] very, very early days,” he’s confident audiences will be satisfied.
“It’s exciting. I think a lot of people are going to be happy, I think people are going to really dig it,” Wyatt, 54, said.
The songwriter, who has co-written major hits like Lady Gaga’s “Shallow” from A Star Is Born and songs for the Barbie movie (including “I’m Just Ken”) also shared that he is a life-long fan of the Narnia series.
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“I think I read The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe to my first grade class … and I know the story and I love the story. And Greta of course is [doing it] in her own way and it’s going to be different,” he said.
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Wyatt shared that he and Ronson have only just begun working on music for the project, and that it’s “going to keep us nice and busy for the next eight or nine months.”
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Wyatt most recently collaborated with Ronson and Miley Cyrus on the single “Dream As One” for the latest Avatar movie.
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“Mark and I have both worked with Miley a lot, and Miley is a good friend of mine,” Wyatt said while telling PEOPLE about the songwriting experience for the film.
He continued, “I’ve been working with Miley since 2018, 2017 even. And I feel like we have a good thing. We’ve written a bunch of songs together and I kind of feel like I know the voice at least.”
“I don’t know — may not know exactly where she is in her life, but then she came in and we finished the song together and she had a lot of input on melodies and lyrics and everything. And we also were playing this film on a loop. So we were all in concert trying to find the thing that was going to meet all of those different criteriaL Has to work in Avatar; has to work as a song on its own; has to work as a Miley song; has to be something that we feel good about. And we finally got there,” he said.
