Max Aruj (Crawl, iBoy, Me You Madness, The Abandoned) has composed the original music for the upcoming action thriller The Ice Road. The film is written and directed by Jonathan Hensleigh (The Punisher, Kill the Irishman) and stars Liam Neeson, Laurence Fishburne, Ray McKinnon, Marcus Thomas, Benjamin Walker and Amber Midthunder. The movie tells the story of a rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save trapped miners in a collapsed diamond mine in the far northern regions of Canada. Shivani Rawat (Captain Fantastic, Trumbo) is producing the project with CODA Entertainment’s Bart Rosenblatt, Eugene Musso & Al Corley (The Forger, Stolen), as well as Envision Media Arts’ Lee Nelson (Celeste & Jesse Forever, Mr. Church) and David Tish (Death of Me, Blood Money). The Ice Road will premiere in the U.S. this year on Netflix.
Aruj’s other upcoming projects include Eytan Rockaway’s Lansky starring Harvey Keitel and Sam Worthington.