Klaus Badelt is the composer of the upcoming indie dark comedy The Oranges. The movie is directed by Julian Farino (Entourage) and stars Hugh Laurie, Leighton Meester, Catherine Keener, Adam Brody, Alia Shawkat, Allison Janney and Oliver Platt. The film centers on a man who begins an affair with the daughter of the family who lives across the street. Ian Helfer and Jay Reiss wrote the project’s screenplay. Anthony Bregman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Leslie Urdang & Dean Vanech (Rabbit Hole, Beginners) are producing. Badelt previously worked with Bregman on last year’s comedy The Extra Man starring Kevin Kline. The Oranges is set to premiere at this year’s Toronto Film Festival. No distribution deal has been announced yet.
As previously reported, Badelt also has the drama Seven Days in Utopia opening this month in the US and the French thriller Rebellion coming out in France this fall. According to his official website, the composer is also scoring a number of other French movies, including a new adaptation of War of the Buttons (La guerre des boutons), the comedy Intouchables directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and starring Francois Cluzet, as well as the adventure comedy Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia starring Gerard Depardieu, Edouard Baer and Catherine Deneuve.
