Terence Blanchard (BlacKkKlansman, Malcolm X, 25th Hour, Harriet, Perry Mason, Da 5 Bloods, Red Tails) is scoring the upcoming documentary Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues. The film is directed by Sacha Jenkins (Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men) and offers a definitive look at the master musician’s life and legacy as a founding father of jazz, the first pop star and a cultural ambassador of the United States. The movie draws on Armstrong’s audio diaries to revisit the music and reappraise the politics of the legendary jazz trumpeter and singer.
Category: Film Scoring Assignments
Animal Collective Scoring Elegance Bratton’s ‘The Inspection’
The experimental pop band Animal Collective is making its feature narrative film scoring debut on the upcoming drama The Inspection. The film is written and directed by Elegance Bratton and stars Jeremy Pope, Raúl Castillo, McCaul Lombardi, Bokeem Woodbine, Aaron Dominguez and Gabrielle Union. The movie follows a man who joins the Marine Corps after being thrown out of his mother’s home at 16 for being gay and living for years in housing precarity.
Volker Bertelmann (Hauschka) Scoring Gunnar Vikene’s ‘War Sailor’
Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) (Lion, Hotel Mumbai, Adrift, Patrick Melrose, The Old Guard, Your Honor) has recently scored the upcoming Norwegian war drama War Sailor (Krigsseileren). The film is written and directed by Gunnar Vikene (Falling Sky, Vegas, Trigger) and stars Kristoffer Joner, Pål Sverre Hagen and Ine Marie Wilmann. The movie follows two lifelong friends who are working on a merchant ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean when World War II breaks out and turns them into refugees at sea.
Dave Palmer Scoring Peter Farrelly’s ‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’
Dave Palmer is the composer of the upcoming comedy drama The Greatest Beer Run Ever. The film is directed by Peter Farrelly (Green Book, Dumb and Dumber) and stars Zac Efron, Russell Crowe, Jake Picking and Will Ropp. The movie is based on the book of the same title by Joanna Molloy & John “Chickie” Donohue and tells the true story of a merchant seaman who, in 1967, accepted a bet to personally deliver a case of beer from New York to his army buddies in Vietnam.
Brian Reitzell Scoring David Slade’s ‘Dark Harvest’
Composer Brian Reitzell (Stranger Than Fiction, Friday Night Lights, Beginners, Relic) is reteaming with director David Slade (Hard Candy) on the upcoming fantasy horror thriller Dark Harvest. The film is based on Norman Partridge’s 2007 novel of the same title and stars Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Jeremy Davies, Elizabeth Reaser and Luke Kirby. The movie is set in a small Midwestern town, in which every fall a supernatural specter makes its way toward the town’s church, where gangs of teenage boys await their chance to confront the legendary nightmare in an annual harvest rite of life and death.
Stephen Lukach Scoring Alex Lehmann’s Peacock Film ‘Meet Cute’
Stephen Lukach (Wrong Turn: The Foundation, Sneaky Pete, Far Cry 6: Special Operations) has recently scored the upcoming Peacock original film Meet Cute. The movie is directed by Alex Lehmann (Blue Jay, Paddleton) and stars Kaley Cuoco and Pete Davidson. The romantic comedy follows a woman who finds a time machine in a downtown Manhattan nail salon and uses it to repeatedly travel back in time to relive the best date of her life.
Alex Somers Scoring Lila Neugebauer’s ‘Causeway’
Alex Somers (Captain Fantastic, Honey Boy, Together, Together, Fresh, Aloha, Charm City Kings, Dawson City: Frozen Time) has composed the original music for the upcoming drama Causeway. The film is directed by Lila Neugebauer and stars Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry. The movie revolves around a soldier struggling to adjust to her life after returning home to New Orleans.
Alex Weston Scoring Matt Sobel’s ‘Goodnight Mommy’ Remake
Alex Weston (The Farewell, The Novice, Wander Darkly, What Breaks the Ice) has composed the original score for the upcoming Amazon original movie Goodnight Mommy. The film directed by Matt Sobel (Take Me to the River) is based on the 2014 Austrian feature of the same title and stars Naomi Watts, Cameron Crovetti, Nicholas Crovetti and Peter Hermann. The psychological horror thriller follows two twin brothers as they arrive home to find their mother’s demeanor altered and face covered in bandages and begin to suspect the woman beneath the gauze might not be their mother.
Daniel Hart Scoring David Lowery’s ‘Peter Pan & Wendy’
Daniel Hart is currently recording his score for the upcoming Disney+ original movie Peter Pan & Wendy. The film is directed by David Lowery and stars Alexander Molony & Ever Anderson in the title roles, Jude Law as Captain Hook, Yara Shahidi as Tinkerbell, as well as Molly Parker, Alan Tudyk, Joshua Pickering, Alyssa Wapanatâhk, Jacobi Jupe and Jim Gaffigan. The fantasy adventure is based on J. M. Barrie’s novel and Disney’s 1953 animated classic and tells the story of a young girl who, defying her parents’ wishes to attend boarding school, travels with her two younger brothers to the magical Neverland, where she meets a boy who refuses to grow up, a tiny fairy and an evil pirate captain.
Danny Elfman Scoring Noah Baumbach’s ‘White Noise’
Danny Elfman (Batman, Spider-Man, Alice in Wonderland, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands) has revealed in a recent interview with iNews that he is composing the original score for the upcoming Netflix original film White Noise. The movie is directed by Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story, The Squid and the Whale) and stars Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, Alessandro Nivola, André Benjamin, Jodie Turner-Smith and Don Cheadle. The horror comedy is based on Don DeLillo’s epochal postmodern 1985 novel of the same title and follows a professor and father-of-four whose comfortable suburban college town life and marriage to a secretive woman are upended after a horrifying nearby accident creates an airborne toxic event of frightening and unknowable proportions.