Film Music Reporter

Jeff Russo has recently scored the pilot for the upcoming TV reboot of Charlie’s Angels. Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights), Rachael Taylor (Grey’s Anatomy) and Annie Ilonzeh (Melrose Place) are starring as the new Angels and it has been reported that Robert Wagner providing the voice of Charlie in the show. Ramon Rodriguez has been cast as John Bosley. The reboot is set in Miami, where the three main characters work as private investigators, getting instructions from their boss Charlie, who only communicates through a speaker box. The pilot is written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (Smallville). Marcos Siega (The Vampire Diaries) directed the pilot. Drew Barrymore, Leonard Goldberg and Nancy Jovoven, who were all involved in the two Charlie’s Angels feature adaptations are producing the project. The original Charlie’s Angels show in the 70’s was scored by Jack Elliott and Allyn Ferguson and the theatrical versions directed by McG from 2000 and 2003 featured a score by Edward Shearmur. The new adaptation arguably marks Russo’s biggest TV project so far. He previously scored the short lived 2009 ABC show The Unusuals starring Jeremy Renner and Amber Tamblyn. ABC announced today that the Charlie’s Angels reboot has officially been picked up for next TV season. A premiere date this fall is expected.