Nick Urata has recently scored the upcoming comedy drama Ruby Sparks. The film is directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and stars Paul Dano as a once-successful young novelist whose creativity is blocked due to heartache and loneliness. He makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him and comes to life to be his girlfriend. Zoe Kazan has written the screenplay is also co-starring in the movie alongside Annette Bening, Chris Messina, Alia Shawkat, Antonio Banderas, Deborah Ann Woll, Steve Coogan, Elliott Gould and Toni Trucks. Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa (Little Children, Election) are producing the Fox Searchlight Pictures and Bona Fide Productions film. Urata has previously worked with the directors on the Academy-winning indie hit Little Miss Sunshine as part of the indie folk group DeVotchKa that co-scored the film with Mychael Danna. Ruby Sparks will be released in theaters on July 25, 2012 by Fox Searchlight.
Urata whose best known previous credits as a film composer include I Love You, Phillip Morris and last year’s comedy drama Crazy, Stupid, Love also has the political comedy Grassroots coming out later this year.