Blake Neely & Sherri Chung are set to compose the music for the upcoming CW drama Batwoman. The show is developed by Caroline Dries & Greg Berlanti based on the DC Comics characters and stars Ruby Rose in the title role, alongside Meagan Tandy, Camrus Johnson, Nicole Kang, Rachel Skarsten, Dougray Scott and Elizabeth Anweis. The series centers on Kate Kane as she soars onto the streets of Gotham as Batwoman. Berlanti (Love, Simon, Everwood) & Dries (The Vampire Diaries) are also executive producing the Warner Bros. Television production with Sarah Schechter (Black Lightning, Doom Patrol) & Geoff Johns (Justice League, Titans), David Nutter (Game of Thrones) and Marcos Siega (The Following) who also directed the pilot episode. Batwoman has just been picked up to series and will premiere this coming TV season on The CW.
Neely & Chung also continue to co-score The CW’s Riverdale, which will return for its fourth season this fall, and NBC’s Blindspot, which has just been renewed for a fifth and final season. They have also recently scored the CBS limited series The Red Line, which currently airs Sunday nights. Neely is also co-scoring most of the other shows in the CW’s Arrowverse, including Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl and Legends of Tomorrow. He is also composing the music for the Berlanti-produced shows All American and You, which will both return for new seasons.
Neely also has the World War II drama Greyhound starring Tom Hanks coming up. Chung’s upcoming feature projects include the indie drama The Lost Husband written and directed by Vicky Wight and starring Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Nora Dunn, Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Herizen Guardiola. The movie is based on the novel by Katherine Center and follows a woman who moves to her estranged Aunt’s goat farm with her children in Central Texas after the death of her husband. Wight and Bibb are also producing the project with Bridget Stokes. No word yet on a premiere date for the film.
