trevor-morrisTrevor Morris has been tapped to score the National Geographic Channel television event Killing Jesus. The movie is directed by Christopher Menaul (Summer in FebruaryThe Forsyte Saga) and stars Kelsey Grammer, Stephen Moyer, Emmanuelle Chriqui, John Rhys Davies, Rufus Sewell, Eoin Macken, Aneurin Barnard, Vernon Dobtcheff, Tamsin Egerton and John Lynch. The three-hour event is based on the best-selling book by Bill O’Reilly and chronicles the life of Jesus of Nazareth through the retelling of the political, social and historical conflicts during the Roman Empire that ultimately led to his death. Walon Green (The Wild BunchEraser) has written the script. O’Reilly is also executive producing the project with Ridley Scott & David Zucker (The Good WifeNumb3rs) for Scott Free Productions, Mary Lisio (Killing Kennedy), Teri Weinberg (The Tudors), Charlie Parsons (Survivor) and Heather Moran. Morris has previously scored the mini-series The Pillars of the Earth for Scott Free. Killing Jesus is set to premiere in 2015 on the National Geographic Channel.

As previously reported, Morris also has the feature Admiral, as well as the third season of History’s Vikings coming up. The composer also continues to score The CW’s Reign.

  1. Kim says:

    Hello, Can you please tell me if the score to “Killing Jesus” will be released on cd or for digital download. I would love to have this score!!

    Thank you!

    Kim 🙂

  2. Yvie says:

    I would like to buy the soundtrack, great music, where is it?