Variety is reporting that Academy Award-nominated composer Nicholas Britell (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Big Short, Vice) & Grammy Award-nominated singer/songwriter Julieta Venegas are composing new songs for the upcoming musical drama Carmen. The film is directed by Benjamin Millepied and is set to star Jamie Dornan and Melissa Barrera. As previously reported, Britell is also composing the score for the movie, which is inspired by French composer Georges Bizet’s opera of the same title. Dimitri Rassam (The Little Prince, Escobar: Paradise Lost) and Mimi Valdès (Roxanne Roxanne) are producing the project. Carmen is set to shoot this fall and will be distributed in the U.S. by Sony Pictures Classics.
Britell also has the second season of HBO’s Succession coming up and is also attached to score Barry Jenkins’ Amazon limited series The Underground Railroad.
