Gabriel Yared is composing the music for the upcoming biographical drama The Happy Prince. The film marks the directorial debut of actor Rupert Everett who also stars in the movie with Colin Firth, Edwin Thomas, Colin Morgan, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Beatrice Dalle and John Standing. The movie tells the story of the last days of famed playwright Oscar Wilde. Everett also wrote the screenplay. Philipp Kreuzer (Death of a Superhero, Morgan’s Last Love), Katja Kuhlmann and Jörg Schulze (The Silence, Five Years) are producing the project. The Happy Prince is currently in post-production and is expected to premiere later this year.
Yared’s upcoming projects also include Xavier Dolan’s The Life and Death of John F. Donovan starring Kit Harington, Jessica Chastain, Natalie Portman & Susan Sarandon and the French drama If You See His Heart starring Gael Bernal Garcia.
