Edward Shearmur has been hired to score the upcoming mystery thriller Before I Go to Sleep. The film is written and directed by Rowan Joffe (Brighton Rock, screenwriter of The American and 28 Weeks Later) and stars Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong and Anne-Marie Duff. The movie is based on the best-selling novel by S.J. Watson of the same title and follows a woman with amnesia who wakes every day with no knowledge of who she is as a result a traumatic accident in her past and must reconstruct her memories from a journal she keeps. Ridley Scott & Liza Marshall (Life in a Day) and Mark Gill (Law Abiding Citzen, Olympus Has Fallen) are producing the Scott Free and Millennium Films production. Shearmur has previously scored the thrillers Righteous Kill and 88 Minutes for Millennium. Before I Go to Sleep is currently in post-production and is expected to premiere in 2014.
As previously reported, Shearmur is also scoring the Lifetime drama Devious Maids, which has recently been renewed for a second season.
Finally Shearmur gets something!!!!