Film Music Reporter

Dhani Harrison & Paul Hicks (Learning to Drive, Outsiders, The Divide, The Case Against Adnan Syed) have composed the original score for the upcoming crime drama Cut Throat City. The film is directed by RZA (The Man with the Iron Fists) and stars Shameik Moore, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Rob Morgan, Demetrius Shipp Jr., Terrence Howard, Wesley Snipes, Eiza González, Kat Graham, Denzel Whitaker, Isaiah Washington and Ethan Hawke. The movie tells the story of four boyhood friends in New Orleans who return after Hurricane Katrina to find their homes decimated, when they reluctantly turn to a local gangster, who offers them one shot at turning their situations around. Paul Cuschieri wrote the screenplay. Sean Lydiard & Will Clevinger (Office Uprising), Michael Mendelsohn (USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage, Hangman), Elliott Michael Smith and Kyle Tekiela (Burying the Ex) are producing the project. Cut Throat City will premiere next month at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival and will be released in theaters later this year by Well Go USA Entertainment.