Composer Joseph Trapanese (Straight Outta Compton, The Greatest Showman, Lady and the Tramp, The Raid: Redemption, Arctic) is reteaming with director Joseph Kosinski on the upcoming Netflix original film Escape from Spiderhead. The sci-fi movie starring Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett is set in the near future and revolves around two convicts who confront their pasts in a facility run by a visionary who gives them emotion-altering drugs. Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick (Deadpool, Zombieland) wrote the screenplay based on a short story by George Saunders. Hemsworth is also producing the project with Screen Arcade’s Eric Newman (Children of Men, Narcos, Project Power) and The New Yorker Studios’ Oren Katzeff & Geneva Wasserman, as well as Tommy Harper and Jeremy Steckler (The Old Man & the Gun). Trapanese and Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) have previously collaborated on the feature TRON: Legacy, Oblivion and Only the Brave. Escape from Spiderhead is set to premiere this year on Netflix.
Trapanese’s other recent projects include Sion Sono’s Prisoners of the Ghostland, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and has been picked up by RLJE Films for a release this year. The composer also recently scored the first season of the new Netflix fantasy series Shadow and Bone, which will premiere this Friday, April 23. A first track from the composer’s score premiered last week (click here to listen) and a second track (Her Name Is Alina Starkov) has just been released today (listen to the full track below).
