Film Music Reporter

Atli Orvarsson is scoring the new NBC drama Chicago PD. The show is created by Dick Wolf (Law & Order) & Matt Olmstead (Prison Break, Breakout Kings) and stars Jason Beghe, Sophia Bush, Patrick John Flueger, LaRoyce Hawkins, Archie Kao, Elias Koteas, Jon Seda, Jesse Lee Soffer and Marina Squerciati. The series is a spin-off of NBC’s hit drama Chicago Fire, which the composer whose previous credits include such films as Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Vantage Point and The Mortal Instruments, has been scoring since the first episode. The crime drama follows the men and women of the Chicago Police Department’s District 21, which is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who patrol the beat and go head-to-head with the city’s street crimes and the Intelligence Unit that combats the city’s major offenses. Wolf and Olmstead are also executive producing the Universal Television and Wolf Films production with Michael Brandt & Derek Haas (3:10 to Yuma, Wanted), Danielle Gelber (Chicago Fire), Peter Jankowski (Law & Order) and Mark Tinker (NYPD Blue, Private Practice). Chicago PD is set to premiere on January 8, 2014 and will air every Wednesday night on NBC. For updates on the drama, visit the official show website.