Roger Goula (Sense and Sensibility, Next Goal Wins, All That Breathes, The Frankenstein Chronicles, Shark Whisperer, Tiger House, Identicals) has provided the original score for the upcoming survival thriller Above the Below. The film is directed by actor Idris Elba (who made his feature directorial debut on the project) & Martin Owen (Let’s Be Evil, Twist) and stars Elba himself, Caitlin FitzGerald and Hero Fiennes Tiffin. The movie follows three astronauts in a race against time after an unscheduled crash-landing leaves them trapped in the crushing depths of the ocean with no contact with mission control and oxygen rapidly running out.
Category: Film Scoring Assignments
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Scoring Jeremy Saulnier’s ‘Slayground’
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Soul, Watchmen, Challengers, Gone Girl, Soul, TRON: Ares, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Mank) have been tapped to score the upcoming horror thriller Slayground. The film is written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room, Rebel Ridge) and stars Cory Michael Smith, Chase Sui Wonders, Sophie Wilde, James Badge Dale, Stephen Root, Stanley Simons, Chris Sullivan, Young Mazino, Matty Matheson, Imogen Poots and Macon Blair. The movie follows a “scare-actor” who wakes up in a haunted attraction surrounded by the dead bodies of his co-workers with no memory of how they got there and – as a state-wide manhunt closes in – races to uncover the truth.
Carl-Johan Sevedag Scoring Ken Sanzel’s ‘Best Pancakes in the County’
Carl-Johan “OA” Sevedag (Borg vs McEnroe, Horizon Line, Hellhole, Opponent, Red Dot, The Villain of Villains, 13 Days Till Summer) has composed the original music for the upcoming action thriller Best Pancakes in the County. The film is directed by Ken Sanzel (Kill Chain, Blunt Force Trauma) and stars Nicolas Cage, Justin Long, Shelley Hennig, Lauren German, Ravi Patel, Michael Sirow and Michael Sirow. The movie is set over the course of one night at an unassuming small-town diner that is the epicenter of a deadly standoff involving rogue federal agents, a fast-talking con man with a dangerous past and a waitress harboring secrets of her own.
Mick Giacchino Scoring Jorge Michel Grau’s ‘Surviving Hurricane Otis’
Mick Giacchino (The Penguin, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, The Muppets Mayhem, Extinct, Zootopia+, That Dirty Black Bag) has composed the original score for the new Mexican Netflix original film Surviving Hurricane Otis (Contra el Huracán). The movie is directed by Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are, Perdida) and stars Benny Emmanuel, Kristyan Ferrer, Mónica Del Carmen, Mónica Jiménez, Andrew Leland Rogers, Gonzalo Vega Jr., Teté Espinoza, Octavio Michel Grau and Roberto Cázares. The drama follows a young man and his half-brother who are trapped when a tropical storm quickly transforms into Category 5 Hurricane Otis off the coast of Acapulco and – distanced and with more differences than things in common – will have to learn to trust each other to survive.
Kris Bowers Scoring Disney’s ‘Hexed’
Kris Bowers (The Wild Robot, GOAT, Bridgerton, Green Book, Secret Invasion, King Richard, Haunted Mansion, The Color Purple, Spider-Noir, Dear White People, Space Jam: A New Legacy) has recently been scoring Walt Disney Animation Studios’ upcoming feature Hexed. The film is directed by Fawn Veerasunthorn (Wish) & Jason Hand (Moana 2), co-directed by Josie Trinidad and features the voices of Hailee Steinfeld, Rashida Jones, Tracie Ullman, Jodie Foster, Walton Goggins and Stephen Fry. The movie follows tells the story a teenage oddball and her Type A mom, who discovers her weirdness is actually hidden magic, transporting them to a world where magic can run free.
Chris Egan Scoring Laurent Zeitoun’s ‘Wings of Freedom’
Chris Egan (The Spanish Princess, Pole to Pole with Will Smith, Tiny World, Man Down) has composed the original music for the upcoming animated feature Wings of Freedom. The film is directed by Laurent Zeitoun (The Intouchables, Leap!) and features the voices of Eva Longoria and Nicholas Galitzine. The movie tells the story of a home-loving eagle who lives in the safety of her hidden bird colony until a twist of fate propels her out of her comfort zone when she meets and teams up with a fearless swift to confront Eternity, a malevolent AI determined to seize control of the world.
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans Scoring Shana Feste’s ‘Heartland’
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, The Outsider, Black Rabbit, The Gift, Enemy, Speak No Evil, Boy Erased, Fear the Walking Dead, The Staircase, The White Tiger) have provided the original score for the upcoming Netflix original film Heartland. The movie is written and directed by Shana Feste (Country Strong, Endless Love) and stars Jessica Chastain, Garrett Hedlund, Carter Faith, John Hawkes, Paul Sparks, Ross Lynch, Norbert Leo Butz, Hill Harper and Wynn Everett. The thriller follows follows a former country megastar who comes out of seclusion to investigate the disappearance of her missing niece, a rising country musician, and must grapple with her own past and Nashville’s seedy underbelly.
The Newton Brothers Scoring Mike Flanagan’s ‘The Exorcist: Martyrs’
The Newton Brothers are scoring the upcoming supernatural horror/crime thriller The Exorcist: Martyrs. The film is written and directed by Mike Flanagan and stars Scarlett Johansson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Diane Lane, Sasha Calle, Laurence Fishburne, Jacobi Jupe, Scoot McNairy, Gil Bellows and John Leguizamo. The movie based on characters created by William Peter Blatty (who scripted William Friedkin’s original 1973 The Exorcist movie) follows a New York City detective who is dragged back into the darkness of her past when a new killer emerges thirteen years after she stopped a satanic serial killer.
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Scoring David Fincher’s ‘The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth’
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (Soul, Watchmen, Challengers, Bones and All, TRON: Ares, Queer) are reteaming with director David Fincher (Seven, Fight Club) on the upcoming Netflix original film The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. The movie is directed by Fincher, written by Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Bastards) based on characters from his 2019 feature Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and stars Brad Pitt who reprises his role as Cliff Booth, for which he received his second Academy Award. Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Matt Groove, Peter Weller, JB Tadena, Corey Fogelmanis and Karren Karagulian are also starring in the comedy
Robert Glasper to Score and Serve as Music Producer on Bill Pohlad’s ‘Miles & Juliette’
Robert Glasper (The Photograph, Miles Ahead, The Big Cigar, The Best Man: The Final Chapters, Bel-Air) has been hired to score the upcoming drama Miles & Juliette. He also serves as the music producer of the film, which is directed by Bill Pohlad (Love & Mercy, Dreamin’ Wild) and stars Damson Idris as Miles Davis, Anamaria Vartolomei as Juliette Gréco, J. Alphonse Nicholson as Kenny “Klook” Clarke, Terrace Martin as Charlie “Bird” Parker, Jay Reeves as Tadd Dameron, Lodric D. Collins as Max Roach, Denny Love as James Moody and Hubert Point-Du Jour as John Coltrane.The movie follows Davis as a 22-year-old on a transformative trip to Paris in 1949, where he meets and falls in love with Gréco, the French singer and actress then emerging as the face of the postwar Left Bank.