Film Music Reporter

Brian Eno has composed the music for the upcoming drama Me & Earl and the Dying Girl. The film is directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (American Horror Story, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, Glee) and stars Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke, Nick Offerman, Connie Britton and Molly Shannon. The movie through follows a student who is coasting to senior year of high school as anonymously as possible and is forced by his mother to befriend a classmate with leukemia. Jesse Andrews has written the screenplay. Dan Fogelman (Crazy, Stupid, Love, Tangled, Cars), Steven Rales & Jeremy Dawson (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom) are producing the project. Eno has previously scored such films as Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, The Jacket and Wim Wenders’ The Million Dollar Hotel. Me & Earl and the Dying Girl just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was picked up by Fox Searchlight for a release later this year.