'Divergent' Movie Soundtrack: Ellie Goulding Track 'Beating Heart' Premiere
Ellie Goulding's new track, Beating Heart, for the Divergent soundtrack premiered on Feb. 24.
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Goulding has a few songs on the OST of the film and has been branded as the "musical voice" for the film's protagonist, Beatrice Prior (Shailene Woodley).
Neil Burger, the director of the film spoke to Entertainment Weekly about choosing Goulding for the soundtrack.
"For me, the movie is about a young woman finding herself, transforming herself and becoming powerful on a societal stage," Burger said. "It's an intimate, personal portrait, but on a grand scale. Ellie's music has that very intimate quality. You are in the heart of her characters, in their souls, in their minds. When she sings her voice resonates inside you. Her music was a perfect way to do all that for Tris-to feel what she was feeling inside."
The sci-fi action film is Summit Entertainment's next big young adult franchise. The film is based on Veronica Roth's novel of the same name and is the first in a trilogy.
Set in the future in Chicago, the story centers around Beatrice Prior (Woodley) and the challenges she faces to belong to a certain faction of this new-age society. The society is divided into five factions: Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave) and Erudite (the intelligent).
Every year all 16-year-olds take an aptitude test that decides what faction makes for the best fit, after which they must decide whether to remain with their family or transfer to a new faction. Prior chooses to fight to belong with Dauntless. James portrays the character of Four, an instructor in the Dauntless community, and Miles Teller plays Peter, who is also being initiated into the same faction as Prior.
The film is scheduled for release on March 21, 2014.
Here's the entire tracklist for the Divergent OST:
Find You - Zedd featuring Matthew Koma and Miriam Bryant
Beating Heart - Ellie Goulding
Fight For You - Pia Mia featuring Chance The Rapper
Hanging On (I See MONSTAS Remix) - Ellie Goulding
I Won't Let You Go - Snow Patrol
Run Boy Run - Woodkid
Backwards -Tame Impala and Kendrick Lamar
I Need You - M83
In Distress - A$AP Rocky featuring Gesaffelstein
Lost And Found (ODESZA Remix) - Pretty Lights
Stranger - Skrillex with KillaGraham from Milo & Otis and Sam Dew
Dream Machines - Big Deal
Dead in the Water - Ellie Goulding
The deluxe edition also includes the following tracks:
I Love You - Woodkid
Waiting Game - Banks
My Blood - Ellie Goulding
Listen to Beating Heart here: