Film Music Reporter

Eric Neveux has composed the score for the upcoming drama Two Men in Town. The film is directed by Rachid Bouchareb (Days of Glory) and stars Forest Whitaker, Harvey Keitel, Ellen Burstyn, Brenda Blethyn and Luis Guzman. The movie is based on a novel by and follows an ex-convict who gets a second chance, but the local law wants to send him back to prison. Bouchareb has written the screenplay with Olivier Lorelle (Days of Glory) and novelist Yasmina Khadra (The Attack). Jean Brehat (Outside the Law, The Attack) is producing the project with Allen Bain. The movie marks the French composer’s second major English language feature project following Bouchareb’s drama Just Like a Woman starring Sienna Miller, which opened in the U.S. last year. His other previous scoring credits include movies such as Intimacy and Sitcom, as well as the TV series Borgia and Flight of the Storks. Two Men in Town will premiere next month at the Berlin Film Festival. No word yet on a domestic distribution deal.