C.C. Adcock is scoring the upcoming black comedy Killer Joe. The movie stars Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon and Juno Temple. The film is based on a play by Tracy Letts (Bug) about a family who hires a police detective-turned-hitman to kill their mother for her life insurance policy. Killer Joe is directed by William Friedkin. The Academy Award-winning director has worked with composer Brian Tyler on his two most recent features (The Hunted, Bug). Five-time Oscar nominee Caleb Deschanel is lensing the picture. C.C. Adcock is best known as a rock’n roll musician, noted for his electric blues and swamp pop-influenced sound. He has learnt composition and arranging during his years as an apprentice to Oscar-winning composer Jack Nitzsche. He has previously scored and served as a music supervisor on a number of smaller pictures, but Killer Joe is arguably his most high profile assignment to date. To find out more about C.C. Adcock, visit his official website. No word yet on a release date for the movie.
Adock also has the indie romance 30 Beats coming up. The film is directed by Alexis Llyod and stars Jennifer Tilly and Jason Kirk. The movie is inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s classic play La Ronde and explores a series of amorous encounters among 10 people in Manhattan. No release date has been set yet for the picture. For more information on the project, visit the film’s official Facebook page.
Do you know if Tyler Bates used any tracks from CC Adcock on the final score for Killer Joe?