Mick Giacchino (The Penguin, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, The Muppets Mayhem, Extinct, Zootopia+, That Dirty Black Bag) has composed the original score for the new Mexican Netflix original film Surviving Hurricane Otis (Contra el Huracán). The movie is directed by Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are, Perdida) and stars Benny Emmanuel, Kristyan Ferrer, Mónica Del Carmen, Mónica Jiménez, Andrew Leland Rogers, Gonzalo Vega Jr., Teté Espinoza, Octavio Michel Grau and Roberto Cázares. The drama follows a young man and his half-brother who are trapped when a tropical storm quickly transforms into Category 5 Hurricane Otis off the coast of Acapulco and – distanced and with more differences than things in common – will have to learn to trust each other to survive. Grau also co-wrote the screenplay with José Leonor Alejandro and Venancio Villalobos. Julián de Tavira (Hernan, El Colapso), Alexis Fridman (Who Killed Sara?, Human Animals), Diego Rabasa (The Secret of the River, Ashes), Viridiana Torres and Héctor Villegas (Queens on the Run) are producing the project. Surviving Hurricane Otis will premiere this coming Friday, October 23 exclusively on Netflix.
Giacchino’s other recent projects include Marvel Television’s Disney+ series VisionQuest, which just premiered last Wednesday.
