Cliff Martinez has been hired to score the upcoming action thriller Contagion. The film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum, The Informant!) centers on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak. The movie’s cast includes Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Jennifer Ehle, Laurence Fishburne, Brian Cranston and John Hawkes. Soderbergh and Martinez previously collaborated on such movies as Sex, Lies and Videotape, Kafka, Underneath, The Limey, Traffic and Solaris. Contagion is Soderbergh’s first movie that is shot in 3D and is just about to enter post-production. Warner Bros will release the film on October 21, 2011.
Contagion marks Martinez’ second high profile scoring assignment in a row after just finishing the score for the legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer. Visit our previous article on the soundtrack announcement for the project.
