Composer Hans Zimmer is reuniting with director Steve McQueen on the upcoming historical drama Blitz. The film is written and directed by McQueen (Shame, Small Axe) and stars Saoirse Ronan, Elliott Heffernan, Harris Dickinson, Kathy Burke, Benjamin Clementine, Paul Weller, Leigh Gill, Stephen Graham, Mica Ricketts, Alex Jennings, CJ Beckford, Joshua McGuire, Hayley Squires, Erin Kellyman and Sally Messham. The movie follows a 9-year-old boy in World War II London who – after being sent to safety in the English countryside – is determined to return home and finds himself in immense peril, while his distraught mother searches for her missing son. McQueen is also producing the project with Working Title Films’ Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner (Atonement, Les Miserables), New Regency’s Arnon Milchan (The Revenant, Birdman), Yariv Milchan (Mr. & Mrs. Smith) and Michael Schaefer (The Martian, Birdman), as well as Anita Overland (The Beautiful Game) and Adam Somner (Licorice Pizza). Zimmer has previously scored McQueen’s last two theatrical narrative features, 12 Years a Slave and Widows. Blitz will premiere at this year’s BFI London Film Festival before opening in select theaters on November 1 and making its streaming debut on November 22 on Apple TV+.
Zimmer’s other upcoming feature projects include Ron Howard’s Eden, which is also expected to premiere later this year.
