Rupert Gregson-Williams has been hired to score the upcoming TNT original series The Alienist. The show is developed by Cary Fukunaga (True Detective, Jane Eyre) based on the novel of same name by Caleb Carr and stars Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans, Dakota Fanning, Brian Geraghty, Robert Wisdom, Douglas Smith, Matthew Shear, Matt Lintz, Brian Geraghty and Q’orianka Kilcher. The psychological thriller drama is set in 1896, when a series of gruesome murders of boy prostitutes has gripped the city and follows a newly appointed top cop who calls upon a criminal psychologist and a newspaper illustrator to conduct the investigation in secret. Fukunaga is also executive producing the Paramount Television and Studio T production with Jakob Verbruggen, Eric Roth (Forrest Gump), Hossein Amini (Drive, Snow White and the Huntsman), E. Max Frye (Foxcatcher), as well as Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin (Spotlight, The Revenant) and Rosalie Swedlin (Laggies). No premiere date has been announced yet for The Alienist.
Gregson-Williams who recently scored this summer’s highest grossing movie at the U.S. box office, Wonder Woman, is also returning to co-score the second season of Netflix’s The Crown (with Lorne Balfe), which is set to premiere on December 8, 2017.
