Month: October 2016

Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 2, 2016)

westworldPremiering tonight is the new HBO original series Westworld created by Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 film and starring Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Jeffrey Wright, Thandie Newton, Tessa Thompson, and Sidse Babett Knudsen. The show’s original music is composed by Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Iron Man, Pacific Rim, Person of Interest, The Strain). Check out our previous article to learn more about the project and also visit HBO’s official show website for updates on the series, which will air every Sunday night.

timelessPremiering tomorrow, October 3, is the new NBC drama Timeless created by Eric Kripke & Shawn Ryan and starring Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter, Malcolm Barrett, Goran Visnjic, Paterson Joseph, Sakina Jaffrey and Claudia Doumit. The show’s original score is composed by Robert Duncan (Castle, The Unit, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Last Resort, Mad Dogs). For more information about the series, which follows three main characters traveling through time to battle unknown criminals in order to protect history as we know it, check out our scoring assignment announcement.

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Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross to Score Peter Berg’s ‘Patriots Day’

patriots-dayTrent Reznor and Atticus Ross have been hired to score the upcoming drama Patriots Day. The film is directed by Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon) and stars Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, J.K. Simmons, Kevin Bacon, Michelle Monaghan, Jimmy O. Yang, Vince Curatola and James Colby. The movie tells the story of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis’s actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists behind it. Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies) has written the screenplay. Scott Stuber (Ted, Role Models, Safe House), Wahlberg, Hutch Parker (X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Wolverine), Dylan Clark (Rise/Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), Stephen Levinson (Entourage, The Gambler), Dorothy Aufiero (The Fighter) and Michael Radutzky are producing the project. 

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