Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Steve Jobs, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Being the Ricardos, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Birds of Prey) has composed the original score for the new Apple TV+ original series Slow Horses. He also co-wrote an original opening titles song with Mick Jagger. The show is based on Mick Herron’s first novel in the book series of the same title and stars Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce, Jack Lowden and Olivia Cooke. The drama follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes. Will Smith (Avenue 5) adapted the material for television and is also executive producing the See-Saw Films production with Graham Yost (Justified, The Americans), Jamie Laurenson & Hakan Kousetta (The North Water, State of the Union), Iain Canning & Emile Sherman (The King’s Speech, Lion), Gail Mutrux (News of the World, The Danish Girl) and Douglas Urbanski (Darkest Hour, Mank), well as James Hawes (Snowpiercer) who also directed all six episodes. Slow Horses will premiere this coming Friday, April 1 on Apple TV+.
Pemberton’s other upcoming projects also include the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse movies and Netflix’s Enola Holmes 2. He also recently scored DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys (to be released in U.S. theaters on April 22) and the comedy Brian and Charles, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and has been picked up by Focus Features for a domestic release in theaters on June 17.
