Premiering today is the animated mini-series Watership Down directed by Noam Murro and featuring the voices of James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Ben Kingsley, John Boyega, Gemma Arterton, Tom Wilkinson, Olivia Colman and Anne-Marie Duff. The show’s original score is composed by Federico Jusid (The Secret in Their Eyes, Kidnap, Life Itself). Decca Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as a song by Emeli Sandé (click here for the full album details) and Capitol Records has released an original song written for the project by Sam Smith (click here for more information). The series is premiering in the U.S. on Netflix.
Another project scored by Federico Jusid is premiering in the U.S. on Friday, December 28. The composer has composed the music for the historical drama A Twelve-Year Night (La noche de 12 años) written and directed by Alvaro Brechner and starring Antonio de la Torre, Chino Darín and Alfonso Tort. The movie tells the true story of three prisoners held in Uruguay in 1973 who were taken from their cells in the middle of the night and kept in solitary confinement for more than 12 years. The drama, which was selected as Uruguay’s candidate for the foreign-language Oscar, premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival and is making its domestic debut exclusively on Netflix.
