Film at Lincoln Center confirmed this week that Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood (Phantom Thread, There Will Be Blood, Inherent Vice, The Master, You Were Never Really Here) has composed the original score for the upcoming drama The Power of the Dog. The film is written and directed by Jane Campion (The Piano, The Portrait of a Lady) and stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee. The movie is based on Thomas Savage 1967 novel of the same name and follows a domineering, magnetic rancher who responds with mocking cruelty when his brother brings home a new wife and her son, until the unexpected comes to pass. Campion is also producing the project with See-Saw Films’ Emile Sherman & Iain Canning (The King’s Speech, Lion), Max Films’ Roger Frappier (The Grand Seduction) and Brightstar’s Tanya Seghatchian (The Crown, Cold War). The Power of the Dog will premiere next month at the 2021 Venice Film Festival (before it screens later in September at the New York Film Festival) and will be released in select theaters and on Netflix this fall.
As previously announced, Greenwood also has Pablo Larrain’s Spencer starring Kristen Stewart coming up.
