Film Music Reporter

Blake Neely (The Flash, The Flight Attendant, Arrow, You, The Keepers, Everwood) has composed the original score for the upcoming Apple TV+ original event series Masters of the Air. The show is written by John Orloff (Anonymous, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole) based on Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name and stars Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Barry Keoghan, Rafferty Law, Nate Mann, Branden Cook, Josiah Cross and Ncuti Gatwa. The 9-part World War II drama tells the story of the men of the 100th Bomb Group as they conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the frigid conditions of combat conducted at 25,000 feet in the air. Steven Spielberg is executive producing the project for Amblin Television, alongside Tom Hanks & Gary Goetzman (The Polar Express, Where the Wild Things Are) for Playtone. Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson, Captain Marvel), Cary Joji Fukunaga (No Time to Die, True Detective), Dee Rees (Mudbound, Bessie) and Tim Van Patten (Perry Mason, Boardwalk Empire) serve as directors. Neely has recorded his music at Ocean Way Nashville. The composer has previously scored the Hanks- & Goetzman-produced limited series The Pacific, the features Greyhound, Starter for 10 & The Great Buck Howard, as well as several documentary series for Playtone. Masters of the Air will premiere on January 26, 2024 on Apple TV+.