Marco Beltrami has signed on to score the upcoming drama True Story. The film is directed by Rupert Goold and stars Jonah Hill, James Franco, Felicity Jones, Ethan Suplee and Gretchen Mol. The movie is based on journalist Michael Finkel’s memoirs about the relationship between Finkel and Christian Longo, a Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel’s name. David Kajganich (The Invasion) has written the screenplay. Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner & Jeremy Kleiner (12 Years a Slave, The Tree of Life, Killing Them Softly) are producing the Plan B Entertainment and New Regency Pictures production. Beltrami has previously scored last year’s World War Z for Plan B and the producers. True Story is currently in post-production and will be distributed by Fox. No release date has been announced yet.
Also coming up for Beltrami is the sci-fi drama The Giver, the thriller November Man starring Pierce Brosnan, Michael Roskam’s The Drop starring Tom Hardy & James Gandolfini, The Coup starring Pierce Brosnan & Owen Wilson, Tommy Lee Jones’ The Homesman starring Hilary Swank & Meryl Streep, the TV series 1864, the fantasy adventure Seventh Son starring Jeff Bridges & Julianne Moore and the horror sequel The Woman in Black: Angel of Death.
