While promo videos for major boxing fights are becoming increasingly extravagant, Romain Chassaing and Academy Films gave us the opportunity to create the soundtrack for Knockout Chaos, a flagship event where the two heavyweight superstars Anthony Joshua and Francis Ngannou faced in Riyadh on March 8. To emphasize the nostalgia for 80s and 90s video games used in the highly explosive trailer, we remixed a classic hip-hop banger into a 8-bit adrenaline-fueled megadrive soundtrack, blending the action of boxing with the vibrant aesthetics of gaming classics.
Production: Academy Films
Executive Producer: Simon Cooper
Producer: Tom Cartwright
DOP: Nicolas Poulsson
Post-production: The Mill
Executive Producer: Fabien Leclerc
Post Producer: Antoine Ville
Editor: Manuel Coutant
Sound Production & Music Supervision: BMM Network
Music: “Smack” by Ugly Duckling8-bit
SFX & Mix: Studio Cardinal, Emmanuel Desmadryl, Jean-Jacques Hubert