Kris Bowers (Green Book, Dear White People, Of Monsters and Men) has been tapped to score the upcoming Showtime original series Black Monday. The show is created by David Caspe (Happy Endings, That’s My Boy) & Jordan Cahan (My Best Friend’s Girl) and stars Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells, Regina Hall, Paul Scheer, Yassir Lester, Michael James Scott and Eugene Cordero. The drama tells the story of how a group of outsiders took on the blue-blood, old-boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the world’s largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine and the glass ceiling. Caspe and Cahan are also executive producing the Showtime & Sony Pictures Television Studios production with Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg (This Is the End, Preacher) who also directed the pilot episode. Black Monday will premiere on January 20, 2019 on Showtime. Visit the official show website for updates.
Bowers also continues to score Netflix’s Dear White People, which will return for its third season in 2019, and ABC’s For the People, which will return for its second season next year. The composer is also reteaming with Dear White People creator Justin Simien on the upcoming horror comedy Bad Hair. The film is written and directed by Simien and stars Laverne Cox, Vanessa Williams and Michelle Hurd. The movie, which follows an ambitious young woman who gets a weave in order to survive the image obsessed world of music television, is expected to premiere in 2019.
