Film Music Reporter

Clinton Shorter (District 9, The Expanse, 2 Guns, Pompeii,  Contraband, Copshop, Boss Level, Colony) has been hired to score the upcoming USA original series The Rainmaker. The show is developed by Michael Seitzman (Incarnate, Intelligence) based on the bestselling novel by John Grisham (which has previously been adapted into a feature directed by Francis Ford Coppola and scored by Elmer Bernstein) and stars Milo Callaghan, John Slattery, Madison Iseman, Lana Parrilla, Wade Briggs, P.J. Byrne, Dan Fogler and Robyn Cara. The legal drama follows an attorney fresh out of law school as he goes head-to-head with a courtroom lion and his law school girlfriend to uncover two connected conspiracies surrounding the mysterious death of their client’s son. Seitzman also serves as the project’s showrunner and is executive producing the Lionsgate Television and Blumhouse Television production with Jason Richman (Stumptown, Bad Company), Jason Blum (Get Out, Halloween), Grisham and David Gernert (The Innocent Man). Shorter has previously collaborated with Seitzman on CBS’ Code Black & Intelligence and the final season of ABC’s Quantico. The Rainmaker is expected to premiere this year on the USA Network.