Howard Shore has composed the score for the upcoming drama Jimmy Picard. The film is directed by Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Tale, Kings & Queens) and stars Benicio Del Toro as a Plains Indian member of the Blackfeet nation who returns from the WWII battlefield and experiences various medical symptoms when he meets a French ethno-psychiatrist with a strong understanding of the modern Native American. Mathieu Amalric and Gina McKee are co-starring. The movie is adapted from Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian by ethnologist and psychologist Georges Devereux. Pascal Caucheteux (Rust an Bone, A Prophet, Assault on Precint 13) is producing the project for Why Not Productions. Shore has previously collaborated with Desplechin on the 2000 drama Esther Kahn. Jimmy Picard is rumored to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month. No word yet on a domestic distribution deal.
Shore’s other upcoming projects include Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and The Hobbit: There and Back Again, set to be released on December 13, 2013 and December 17, 2014.
