Marco Beltrami & Brandon Roberts are scoring the upcoming adventure thriller Underwater. The film is directed by William Eubank (The Signal) and stars Kristen Stewart, T.J. Miller, Jessica Henwick, Mamoudou Athie, Vincent Cassel, John Gallagher Jr. and Gunner Wright. The movie follows a crew of underwater researchers who must scramble to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory. Brian Duffield (Insurgent, Jane Got a Gun) wrote the screenplay. Peter Chernin (War for the Planet of the Apes, Oblivion), Jenno Topping (The Heat, The Greatest Showman) and Tonia Davis are producing the project. Underwater is currently in post-production and will be distributed by 20th Century Fox. No release date has been announced yet.
Beltrami’s recent projects also include John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place, which is currently playing in theaters nationwide, as well as the National Geographic documentary Free Solo. Roberts who has previously co-scored The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, TURN: Washington’s Spies and Little Evil with Beltrami (and Marcus Trump) has also recently recorded his music for the upcoming drama Unbroken: Path to Redemption directed by Harold Cronk and starring Samuel Hunt, Merritt Patterson, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Bobby Campo and David DeLuise. The film is based on Laura Hillenbrand’s bestselling book of the same title begins where Angelina Jolie-directed movie Unbroken (scored by Alexandre Desplat) concludes and tells the true story of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini. The drama will rereleased in theaters nationwide on October 5 by Pure Flix. Visit the official movie website for more information.
