Rupert Gregson-Williams (Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Hacksaw Ridge, The Legend of Tarzan, Smallfoot, Over the Hedge) has composed the original music for the upcoming comedy Brothers. The film is directed by Max Barbakow (Palm Springs) and stars Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage, Glenn Close, Brendan Fraser and Taylour Page. No plot details have been announced yet for the movie, which will revolve around two siblings played by Brolin and Dinklage. Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore., The Toxic Avenger) and Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder, Get Smart) wrote the screenplay.
Category: Film Scoring Assignments
Rob Scoring Rebecca Zlotowski’s ‘Other People’s Children’
Composer Rob (aka Robin Coudert) (Maniac, Horns, Gretel & Hansel, Revenge, Troy: Fall of a City, Oxygen) is reuniting with director Rebecca Zlotowski on the upcoming French drama Other People’s Children (Les enfants des autres). The film is written and directed by Zlotowski and stars Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni and Callie Ferreira-Goncalves. The movie revolves around a childless woman who forms a deep bond with her boyfriends young daughter.
Dan the Automator Scoring Jay Chandrasekhar’s ‘Easter Sunday’
Dan the Automator (Booksmart, Control, Dash & Lily, Holidate) has composed the original score for the new comedy Easter Sunday. The film is directed by Jay Chandrasekhar (Super Troopers, The Dukes of Hazzard) and stars Jo Koy, Jimmy O. Yang, Tia Carrere, Brandon Wardell, Eva Noblezada, Lydia Gaston, Asif Ali, Rodney To, Eugene Cordero, Chandrasekhar himself, Tiffany Haddish and Lou Diamond Phillips. The movie follows a Filipino-American man returning home for an Easter celebration with his riotous, bickering, eating, drinking, laughing, loving family.
Lorne Balfe Scoring Jaume Collet-Serra ‘Black Adam’
Lorne Balfe (Black Widow, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Top Gun: Maverick, His Dark Materials, The Wheel of Time, The LEGO Batman Movie) is composing the original music for the upcoming superhero movie Black Adam. The film is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (Jungle Cruise, Non-Stop) and stars Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Pierce Brosnan, Noah Centineo, Quintessa Swindell, Sarah Shahi, Marwan Kenzari and Bodhi Sabongui. The movie tells the story of the titular anti-hero who first appeared in DC Comics in the 1940s as a power-corrupt villain and slowly became an anti-hero by the 2000s, known for his disregard of rules and conventions.
Lorne Balfe Scoring John Francis Daley’s & Jonathan Goldstein’s ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’
Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Black Widow, Bad Boys for Life, Top Gun: Maverick, His Dark Materials, The Wheel of Time, The Crown) has recently been scoring the upcoming action adventure Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. The film is directed by John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein (Game Night, Vacation) and stars Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Chloe Coleman and Hugh Grant. No plot details have been announced yet for the movie based on the role-playing game.
Jeremy Holland-Smith Scoring Netflix’s ‘Scrooge: A Christmas Carol’
Netflix announced today that Jeremy Holland-Smith (The Passing, The League of Gentlemen, The Dumping Ground, Frankie) has composed the original score for the upcoming Netflix animated feature Scrooge: A Christmas Carol. The composer has also arranged and produced the re-imagined songs written by late Academy Award winner Leslie Bricusse for the movie, which is directed by Stephen Donnelly (Monster High: Welcome to Monster High) and features the voices of Luke Evans, Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Fra Fee, Giles Terera, Trevor Dion Nicholas, James Cosmo and Jonathan Pryce.
Marcelo Zarvos Scoring Antoine Fuqua’s ‘Emancipation’
Marcelo Zarvos (Fences, Wonder, The Affair, Ray Donovan, A Journal for Jordan, The Good Shepherd, Enough Said) has been tapped to score the upcoming historical thriller Emancipation. The film is directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Equalizer, The Magnificent Seven) and stars Will Smith, Ben Foster, Charmaine Bingwa, Gilbert Owuor and Mustafa Shakir. The movie tells the true story of a runaway slave who had to outwit cold-blooded hunters and the unforgiving swamps of Louisiana to escape a Southern plantation and to make his his way North, where he joined the Union Army.
Matthew Herbert Scoring Sebastián Lelio’s ‘The Wonder’
Composer Matthew Herbert (The Beast Must Die, The Cave, The Responder, Port Authority, Temple) is reuniting with director Sebastián Lelio on the upcoming Netflix original film The Wonder. The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Emma Donoghue and stars Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, Niamh Algar, Elaine Cassidy, Toby Jones, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Dermot Crowley, Brían F. O’Byrne and Ciaran Hinds. The psychological thriller is set in the Irish Midlands in 1862 and revolves around an 11-year old girl who stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well and an English nurse who is brought to her tiny village to observe.
Nathan Matthew David Scoring Disney+’s ‘Chang Can Dunk’
Nathan Matthew David (Deadly Class, The Last Word, Slice, Hypnotic, Angie Tribeca, A Man Named Scott, Surviving R. Kelly) has composed the original score for the upcoming Disney+ original movie Chang Can Dunk. The film is written and directed by Jingyi Shao and stars Bloom Li, Ben Wang, Dexter Darden, Chase Liefeld and Zoe Renee. The sports drama follows a 16-year-old Asian American high school student in the marching band who bets the school basketball star that he can dunk by Homecoming, which leads him on a quest to find the hops he needs to dunk in order to impress his crush and gain the attention and respect of his high school peers.
James Newton Howard to Score Francis Lawrence’s ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’
James Newton Howard (King Kong, Maleficent, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Sixth Sense, Signs) is set to score the upcoming film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The movie, which serves as a prequel to The Hunger Games series, is directed by Francis Lawrence and stars Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Josh Andrés Rivera, Hunter Schafer, Jason Schwartzman Irene Boehm, Cooper Dillon, Luna Kuse, Kjell Brutscheidt, Athena Strates, Dimitri Abold, Dakota Shapiro, George Somner and Vaughan Reilly.