Nathan Matthew David (Deadly Class, The Last Word, Slice, Hypnotic, Angie Tribeca, A Man Named Scott, Surviving R. Kelly) has composed the original score for the upcoming Disney+ original movie Chang Can Dunk. The film is written and directed by Jingyi Shao and stars Bloom Li, Ben Wang, Dexter Darden, Chase Liefeld and Zoe Renee. The sports drama follows a 16-year-old Asian American high school student in the marching band who bets the school basketball star that he can dunk by Homecoming, which leads him on a quest to find the hops he needs to dunk in order to impress his crush and gain the attention and respect of his high school peers. Brad Weston (Footloose, Queen & Slim) is producing the project with Hillman Grad’s Lena Waithe & Rishi Rajani (The Chi, The Forty-Year-Old Version). Chang Can Dunk is set to premiere in 2023 on Disney+.
David also continues to score NBC’s Young Rock, which will return for its third season on November 4, 2022.