Film Music Reporter

Ilan Eshkeriand Dinos Chapman have composed the music for the British mini-series The Marriage of Reason & Squalor. The 4-parter is based on the 2008 novel by Jake Chapman who is also directing the project and stars Rhys Ifans, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Michael Fitzgerald and Noma Dumezweni. The series follows a woman whose dashing surgeon fiancé has given her a desert island as a wedding present and travels to the island to wait for him, but meets a reclusive and misshapen author instead. Colin Vaines is producing the project for Morass Productions. Eshkeri previously scored the Vaines-produced features Coriolanus and The Young Victoria. The Marriage of Reason & Squalor premieres this Thursday, June 11 on Sky. No word yet on a U.S. premiere date.