Trevor Morris has been tapped to score the upcoming action thriller Olympus Has Fallen. The film is directed by Antoine Fuqua and stars Gerard Butler as a disgraced Secret Service agent who is called back to duty when the White House is taken over by terrorists. Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Ashley Judd, Melissa Leo, Dylan McDermott, Cole Hauser and Radha Mitchell and Rick Yune are co-starring. Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt have written the screenplay and Fuqua is producing the Millennium Films production with Butler, Ed Cathell III (The Paperboy), Danny Lerner (The Expendables 2), Alan Siegel & Mark Gill (Law Abiding Citizen).
Category: Film Scoring Assignments
Nima Fakhrara Scoring Eduardo Sanchez’s ‘Exists’
Nima Fakhrara has recently scored the horror film Exists. The film is directed by Eduardo Sanchez (The Blair Witch Project) and follows a group of twenty-somethings who take a trip to a cabin deep in the wooded wilderness and are hunted by a Bigfoot-like beast. Sanchez has co-written the screenplay with Jamie Nash. Dora Madison Burge, Samuel Davis, Roger Edwards, Chris Osborn and Denise Williamson are starring in the movie, which is produced by Robin Cowie & Gregg Hale (The Blair Witch Project) and Andy Jenkins for Haxan Films and Jane Fleming & Mark Ordesky (The Frozen Ground) for Amber Entertainment. The project marks Fakhrara’s first collaboration with Sanchez. The composer’s previous credits include The Courier starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan & Mickey Rourke and the thriller Removal starring Billy Burke.
Theodore Shapiro and Ludwig Göransson Scoring ‘We’re the Millers’
Ludwig Göransson and Theodore Shapiro are co-scoring the upcoming comedy We’re the Millers. The film is directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and stars Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudekis, Emma Roberts, Ed Helms, Will Poulter and Kathryn Hahn. The movie follows a veteran pot dealer who creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico. Tucker Tooley & Vincent Newman (A Man Apart, Felon), Happy Walters and David Heyman (Harry Potter series, I Am Legend) are producing the New Line Cinema production. Shapiro has previously scored the director’s first two features Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
Jacob Groth Scoring ‘Dead Man Down’
Jacob Groth is reteaming with director Niels Arden Oplev on the upcoming crime thriller Dead Man Down. The film stars Colin Farrell as a professional killer and the right-hand man to an underground crime lord in New York City who is seduced and blackmailed by a crime victim seeking retribution. Noomi Rapace, Terrence Howard, Dominic Cooper, Armand Assante and Isabelle Huppert are co-starring. J.H. Wyman (Fringe, The Mexican) has written the screenplay and is also producing the Original Film and Frequency Films production with Neal Moritz (I Am Legend, Fast Five, 21 Jump Street). Groth and Oplev have previously worked together numerous times, most notably on the Swedish original The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo film, as well as the CBS crime series Unforgettable.
Scott Glasgow to Score ‘Hatchet III’
Scott Glasgow is currently scoring the upcoming horror sequel Hatchet III. The movie starring Danielle Harris and Kane Hodder, Caroline Williams and Sean Whalen picks up where Hatchet II left off, as a young woman sought revenge on the monster that killed her family while they were fishing in Louisiana swamp country. The film marks the directorial debut of BJ McDonnell who served as a cameraman on the first two Hatchet installments. The creator of the series, Adam Green, has written the screenplay and is executing the ArieScope Pictures and Dark Sky Films production. The previous two Hatchet movies featured music by Andy Garfield. Hatchet III is currently in post-production and will be released later this year.
Underworld’s Rick Smith Scoring Danny Boyle’s ‘Trance’
Rick Smith has composed the score for the upcoming thriller Trance. The film is directed by Danny Boyle and stars James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel and Rosario Dawson. The movie follows a fine art auctioneer mixed up with a criminal gang who joins forces with a hypnotherapist to recover a lost painting. The thriller is based on a BBC film written by Joe Ahearne who has penned the screenplay for the project with John Hodge (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave). Christian Colson (Slumdog Millionaire) is producing the Film4 presentation of a Cloud Eight/Decibel Films production. Smith is best known as a member of the British electronic music group Underworld. Boyle has previously collaborated with the group on the 1996 drama Trainspotting, the sci-fi film Sunshine, as well the opening ceremony of last year’s Olympic Games in London.
Clint Mansell Scoring ‘Filth’
Clint Mansell is currently recording his score for the comedic thriller Filth. The movie is written and directed by Jon S. Baird (Green Street Hooligans, Cass) and stars James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan, Imogen Poots and Joanne Frogatt. The film is based on the novel by Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting) and follows an Edinburgh police detective who is manipulating everyone who stands in his way of securing a job promotion and winning back his family and daughter. Baird is also producing the thriller with Ken Marshall, Judy Styler (Moon) & Celine Rattray (The Kids Are All Right) for Maven Pictures and Jens Meurer (The Last Station, Black Book) for Egoli Tossell. Mansell’s music is being recorded at Air Studios in London.
Nathan Larson Scoring ‘Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes’
Nathan Larson has composed the score for the indie drama Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes. The film is written and directed by Francesca Gregorini and stars Kaya Scodelario, Jessica Biel, Alfred Molina, Frances O’Connor, Jimmi Simpson and Aneurin Barnard. The movie centers on 17-year old troubled girl and her obsession with a new neighbor’s resemblance to her dead mother as the girl agrees to babysit the woman’s lifelike doll. Gregorini is producing the project with Matthew R. Brady and actress Rooney Mara is co-producing with Tatiana Von Furstenberg.
Pedro Bromfman to Score ‘RoboCop’ Remake
Pedro Bromfman has officially been hired to score the upcoming RoboCop remake. The film is directed by Jose Padhila and stars Joel Kinnaman in the title role as a Detroit police office who’s transformed into RoboCop after he’s murdered while on duty. Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Jay Baruchel, Abbie Cornish, John Paul Ruttan, Jackie Earle Haley, Jennifer Ehle and Marianne Jean-Baptiste are co-starring. Eric Newman & Marc Abraham (Children of Men, Dawn of the Dead) and Roger Birnbaum (Wanted, Rush Hour) & Gary Barber (True Romance) are producing the Strike Entertainment, MGM and Columbia Pictures production. The film is a remake of the 1987 classic film directed by Paul Verhoeven, which featured a score by Basil Poledouris.
‘After Tiller’ to Feature Music by Eric D. Johnson and Andy Cabic
Eric D. Johnson and Andy Cabic have composed the score for the upcoming documentary After Tiller. The film is directed by Martha Shane and Lana Wilson and centers on the four remaining doctors in the United States who continue to perform third-trimester abortions after the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009. The movie follows each of the four physicians’ private and professional struggles. Shane and Wilson are also producing the documentary and have co-written the screenplay with Greg O’Toole. Johnson and Cabic have previously collaborated on the score for last year’s Smashed starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul.