Johnny Klimek is set to score the upcoming crime thriller Kill Me Three Times. The film is directed by Kriv Stenders (Red Dog) and stars Simon Pegg, Alice Braga, Luke Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer, Bryan Brown, Sullivan Stapleton and Callan Mulvey. The movie’s story is being told from three different points of view and follows a mercurial professional assassin in a sundrenched Australian surfing town who is hired to kill the singer wife of a wealthy man. James McFarland has written the screenplay and Laurence Malkin & Share Stallings (Death at a Funeral, A Few Best Men) are producing the project with former film industry administrator Tania Chambers. Kill Me Three Times is currently in post-production and will be released in 2014.
Klimek is also scoring the upcoming ABC drama Mind Games. The show is created by Kyle Killen (The Beaver, Lone Star) and stars Steve Zahn, Christian Slater, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Cedric Sanders, Gregory Marcel and Wynn Everett. The series follows two brothers and partners in a unique agency who are committed to solving clients’ problems using the hard science of psychological manipulation. Killen is also executive producing the 20th Century Fox Television production with Keith Redman (The Beaver. Miguel Sapochnik (Repo Men) directed the pilot episode. Mind Games is set to premiere on March 11, 2014 and will air every Tuesday night on ABC. For updates on the drama, visit the official show website.
Klimek has most recently scored the second season of HBO’s The Newsroom and also has the action thriller I, Frankenstein (co-scored with Reinhold Heil) coming up.