David Bateman (Money Plane, My Father Muhammad Ali, A Girl Like Her) has been hired to score the upcoming action thriller The Collective. The film is directed by Tom DeNucci (Vault, Almost Mercy) and stars Lucas Till, Ruby Rose, Tyrese Gibson, Don Johnson, Paul Ben-Victor and Mercedes Varnado. The movie follows a group of righteous assassins called The Collective who take aim at a highly sophisticated human trafficking ring backed by a network of untouchable billionaires. Matt Rogers (Code Name Banshee, The Survivalist) and Jason James wrote the screenplay. Yale Entertainment’s Jordan Yale Levine & Jordan Beckman (Becky, Separation) are producing the project with Dawn’s Light Media’s Richard Switzer (Black Water, Altitude). The Collective is currently in post-production and is expected to be released later this year.