Film Music Reporter

Nathaniel Mechaly is composing the score for the upcoming action series Taxi Brooklyn. The show is based on Luc Besson‘sTaxi feature franchise and stars Chyler Leigh, Jacky Ido, Jennifer Esposito, Ally Walker, James Colby, Bill Heck, Jose Zuniga and Raul Casso. The action comedy centers on the partnership between a streetwise Marseilles-born New York City taxi driver and an intensely driven NYPD detective for whom this immigrant cabbie becomes chauffeur, insider on the streets and unofficial partner. Gary Scott Thompson (Las Vegas, The Fast And The Furious) is executive producing the EuropaCorp Television production with Edouard de Vesinne and Thomas Anargyros. Olivier Megaton who previously collaborated with Mechaly on his features  and Colombiana has directed the first two episodes. The composer has also previously scored EuropaCorp’s The Transporter TV series. Taxi Brooklyn is set to premiere next month in France and will be airing in the U.S. this summer on NBC.