Film Music Reporter

Composer Dmitri Golovko (The Gloaming, Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries, Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism) is reuniting with director Patrick Hughes (The Hitman’s Bodyguard, The Expendables 3) on the upcoming Netflix original film War Machine. The film is co-written (with James Beaufort) and directed by Hughes and stars Alan Ritchson, Dennis Quaid, Stephan James, Esai Morales, Jai Courtney, Blake Richardson, Keiynan Lonsdale and Daniel Webber. The action thriller revolves around a combat engineer on one last grueling mission during Army Ranger training who must lead his unit in a fight against a giant otherworldly killing machine. Hughes is also producing the project with Todd Lieberman (Beauty and the Beast, The Fighter) and Alexander Young (Shotgun Wedding). Golovko has previously scored Hughes’ 2010 feature directorial debut Red Hill and also provided additional music to the director’s The Hitman’s Bodyguard. War Machine will premiere on March 6, 2026 exclusively on Netflix.