Marco Beltrami is composing the music for the upcoming National Geographic documentary Free Solo. The film is directed by Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (Meru) and revolves around rock climber Alex Honnold as he is training on Freerider for the first ever rope-free climb of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Chin & Chai Vasarhelyi are also producing the project with Evan Hayes, Walter Parkes & Laurie MacDonald (Men in Black, The Ring, Flight) and Shannon Dill. Free Solo will be released in select theaters in 2018 before premiering on National Geographic channels in 171 countries.
Beltrami’s upcoming projects also include John Krasinki’s horror thriller A Quiet Place and the Paramount Network event series Waco.