Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, Moneyball, Capote, Little Miss Sunshine, Girl, Interrupted, The Good Dinosaur, Onward) has released a soundtrack album for the Canadian drama Seven Veils. The album features the film’s original music composed by the Academy Award winner and Nicholas Skalba (The Red Sea Diving Resort). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composers’ first two tracks below. Seven Veils is written and directed by Atom Egoyan and stars Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Vinessa Antoine and Mark O’Brien. The movie revolves around an earnest theater director who gets tasked with remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome and is forced to re-examine her tangled personal history with the project, the deceased man, and her own family.
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Mychael Danna Scoring Atom Egoyan’s ‘Seven Veils’
Composer Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, Moneyball, Where the Crawdads Sing, Capote, The Good Dinosaur, The Addams Family) is reteaming with director Atom Egoyan on the upcoming Canadian drama Seven Veils. The film is written and directed by Egoyan and stars Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Vinessa Antoine, Mark O’Brien, Ambur Braid and Michael Kupfer-Radecky. The movie revolves around an earnest theatre director who gets tasked with remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome.
Mychael Danna to Score Atom Egoyan’s ‘Guest of Honour’
Composer Mychael Danna is set to reteam with director Atom Egoyan on the upcoming psychological drama Guest of Honour. The film is written and directed by Egoyan and stars David Thewlis, Laysla De Oliveira, Luke Wilson, Rossif Sutherland and Alexandre Bourgeois. The movie centers on the relationship between a father and his 20-something year old daughter who wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she’s been wrongfully indicted for. Egoyan is also producing the project for Ego Film Arts, alongside Simone Urdl & Jennifer Weiss (Away from Her, Daydream Nation) for The Film Farm.
Mychael Danna’s ‘Devil’s Knot’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Varese Sarabande has announced a soundtrack album for Atom Egoyan’s 2013 thriller Devil’s Knot. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, The Good Dinosaur, Moneyball, Capote, The Ice Storm). To pre-order the limited edition CD and to check out audio clips, visit the label’s official website. Devil’s Knot is directed by Egoyan and stars Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon, Amy Ryan, Mireille Enos, Stephen Moyer, Alessandro Nivola and Dane DeHaan. The movie is based on Mara Leveritt’s bestselling book West Memphis Three and tells the true story of three teenagers who were wrongly convicted of murdering three boys in 1993 in West Memphis, Arkansas.
Atom Egoyan’s ‘Remember’ Soundtrack Details
The details of the soundtrack album for Atom Egoyan’s dramatic thriller Remember have been announced. The album features the film’s original music written by Academy Award-winning composer Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, Little Miss Sunshine, Moneyball, The Good Dinosaur). The soundtrack will be released on January 15, 2016 by Varese Sarabande and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Remember stars Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, Dean Norris, Bruno Ganz, Jurgen Prochnow, Heinz Lieven and Henry Czerny. The movie follows a man who is sent on a mission to avenge a horror from the darkest chapter of modern history after it is discovered that the Nazi guard who murdered his family some 70 years ago is now living in America.
Mychael Danna Scoring Atom Egoyan’s ‘Remember’
Mychael Danna is reteaming with director Atom Egoyan on the upcoming thriller Remember. The film starring Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, Dean Norris, Bruno Ganz, Jurgen Prochnow, Heinz Lieven and Henry Czerny is described as a “thriller in which the darkest chapter of modern history collides with a contemporary mission of revenge”. Benjamin August has written the screenplay. Ari Lantos (The Right Kind of Wrong, Stage Fright) and Robert Lantos (Eastern Promises, Being Julia, eXistenZ) are producing the project.
Mychael Danna Scoring ‘Queen of the Night’
Mychael Danna is currently scoring the upcoming psychological thriller Queen of the Night. The film is directed by Atom Egoyan and stars Ryan Reynolds, Mireille Enos, Bruce Greenwood, Scott Speedman, Rosario Dawson and Kevin Durand. The movie follows a father of an abducted child who finds a series of clues that convince him that the girl is still alive. Egoyan has co-written the screenplay with David Fraser and is also producing the Ego Film Arts and The Film Farm production with Simone Urdl & Jennifer Weiss (Away from Her, Redaction) and Stephen Traynor. Danna has previously scored all of Egoyan’s major features of the last two decades including The Sweet Hereafter, Exotica, Where the Truth Lies, Chloe, Ararat and Felicia’s Journey.
Mychael Danna to Score Atom Egoyan’s ‘The Devil’s Knot’
Mychael Danna is reuniting with director Atom Egoyan to score the upcoming drama The Devil’s Knot. The movie is based on Mara Leveritt’s bestselling book West Memphis Three and stars Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon, Dane DeHaan, Amy Ryan, Mireille Enos, Kevin Durand, Bruce Greenwood, Alessandro Nivola, Stephen Moyer, Collette Wolfe, Kris Polaha and Kristopher Higgins. The movie tells the true story of three teens who were wrongly convicted of murdering three boys in 1993. Scott Derrickson & Paul Harris Boardman (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) have written the screenplay and Boardman is also producing the Worldview Entertainment production with Elizabeth Fowler, Clark Peterson (Monster, Rampart), Richard Saperstein and Christopher Woodrow (James Gray’s upcoming Nightingale). Danna and Egoyan have been collaborating for over 20 years on such films as The Sweet Hereafter, Exotica, Where the Truth Lies, Ararat and Chloe.