Film Music Reporter

BBC announced today that Hans Zimmer (Gladiator, The Dark Knight, Dune, Inception, The Lion King) and Kara Talve (Prehistoric Planet, Faraway Downs, The Simpsons) for Bleeding Fingers Music are set to compose the music for the upcoming BBC/Stan original drama Lord of the Flies. The show is developed by Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials, Enola Holmes) based on William Golding’s classic novel of the same title and stars David McKenna, Winston Sawyers, Lox Pratt, Isaac Talbut, Thomas Connor, Noah & Cassius Flemyn, Cornelius Brandreth and Tom Page-Turner. The series directed by Marc Munden (Utopia, The Third Day) tells the story of a group of young schoolchildren who find themselves stranded on a tropical island with no adults, following a deadly plane crash. Thorne & Munden are also executive producing the project with Joel Wilson & Jamie Campbell (The Enfield Haunting, Glue) for Eleven, Nawfal Faizullah (The Tourist, Boat Story) for the BBC and Cailah Scobie & Amanda Duthie (Bad Behaviour, Ten Pound Poms) for Stan. Zimmer & Talve have previously co-scored this year’s Peacock/Sky limited series The Tattooist of Auschwitz, for which they received an Emmy Award nomination. Lord of the Flies is expected to premiere in the UK next year on BBC One and in Australia on Stan.