Alexandre Desplat has been announced to score the drama The Special Relationship. The project traces former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair’s relationships with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The movie is directed by Richard Loncraine who previously directed the action thriller Firewall which also had a score by Desplat. The film also marks another collaboration between writer/producer Peter Morgan, who Desplat worked with on The Queen. Michael Sheen reprises his role of Tony Blair from that movie is joined by Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton and Hope David as Hillary Clinton. The BBC produced movie is scheduled to come out in May in the UK. A domestic distribution deal and release date has yet to be announced.
Desplat will also continue his relationship with director Stephen Frears (The Queen, Cheri) on Tamara Drewe. The movie about a young newspaper writer who returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale stars Dominic Cooper and is scheduled to come out later this year by Sony Pictures Classics in the United States.
The extremely prolific composer also has the highly anticipated Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 on his slate of upcoming projects and is still working on Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, which should come out later this year. Read the rest of this entry »
James Newton Howard’s score for Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang will be released by Varese Sarabande Records. The movie is the sequel to Nanny McPhee, which was scored by Patrick Doyle and came out in 2006. In the sequel, Emma Thompson is reprising her role as Nanny McPhee and is joined by the recently Oscar nominated Maggie Gyllenhaal. 
