Guillaume Roussel is composing the music for the new CBS drama Ransom. The show is created by Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files, The Man in the High Castle, Transporter: The Series) & David Vainola and stars Luke Roberts, Sarah Greene, Brandon Jay McLaren and Nazneen Contractor. The series revolves around a world-renowned crisis and hostage negotiator whose team is brought in to resolve the most difficult kidnap and ransom cases. Big Light Productions’ Spotnitz & Vainola are also executive producing the Entertainment One, Wildcats and Sienna Films production with Jennifer Kawaja & Julia Sereny (Combat Hospital), Odile McDonald, Valerie Pechels and Jocelyn Hamilton. Roussel has previously scored the first season of Big Light’s Crossing Lines. Ransom will premiere on Sunday, January 1, 2017 before moving to its regular time slot on Saturday, January 7.
As previously reported, Roussel (3 Days to Kill, Outcast, It Boy) also has scored the upcoming thriller The Man with the Iron Heart (previously entitled HHhH) starring Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike & Jack O’Connell.
