Film Music Reporter

Ilan Eshkeri has recently recorded his score for the British thriller Retreat. The film is directed by Carl Tibbetts and stars Jamie Bell, Cillian Murphy and Thandie Newton. The movie centers on a married couple who rent a cottage on a remote island to fix their marriage. Their plans are cut short when a soldier wearing a biohazard suit washes up on the beach claiming that everyone on the mainland has been killed by a virus. Eshkeri’s score features violin solos by Jack Liebeck who recently performed on Dario Marianelli’s score for Jane Eyre. No release date has been set for the movie, but a release towards the end of the year is expected.

Also coming up for Eshkeri is the thriller Blooded, which the composer co-scored with Jeff Toyne. Toyne is known as an orchestrator for such composers as Brian Tyler, Klaus Badelt, Elliott Goldenthal, Harald Kloser and Eshkeri, but he is also a composer in his own right. Blooded is directed by Edward Boase and stars Nick Ashdon, Neil McDermott and Oliver Boot. The movie is shot in a mockumentary style and centers on the animal rights action group “Real Animal League”, which kidnaps five young deer hunters and then hunts them. The film will be released in the UK on April 1. No information on a domestic release is available. For more information on the film, visit the official movie webpage.

For Eshkeri’s other upcoming projects including Johnny English Reborn, Coriolanus and Blitz, visit our previous article.