Sparks & Shadows will release a soundtrack album for the new Starz original series Black Sails. The album features the show’s original score composed by Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), including the composer’s main titles theme. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on January 28, 2014. Black Sails marks McCreary’s second collaboration with show creator Jonathan E. Steinberg following Human Target and follows the tales of Captain Flin and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Treasure Island. The pirate adventure is co-created by Robert Levine and stars Toby Stephens, Luke Arnold, Zach McGowan, Toby Schmitz, Hannah New, Tom Hopper, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Clara Paget and Mark Ryan. The series will premiere this Saturday, January 25 and will air every Saturday night on Starz.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 19, 2014)
Premiering on Saturday, January 25, is the Starz original series Black Sails created by Jon Steinberg & Robert Levine and starring Toby Stephens, Luke Arnold, Zach McGowan, Toby Schmitz, Hannah New, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Clara Paget, Tom Hopper and Mark Ryan. The show’s original music is composed by Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica) who previously scored the Steinberg-produced Human Target. Check out our previous article to learn more about the project. McCreary’s label Sparks & Shadows will release a soundtrack album for the show on January 28. The full details will be announced on this page soon. Click here to watch the series’ opening titles featuring the composer’s main titles theme.
Bear McCreary to Score Starz’s ‘Black Sails’
Bear McCreary is composing the score for the upcoming Starz original series Black Sails. The pirate adventure is created by Jon Steinberg (Jericho) & Robert Levine (Touch) follows the tales of Captain Flin and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Treasure Island. The show’s cast includes Toby Stephens, Luke Arnold, Zach McGowan, Toby Schmitz, Hannah New, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Clara Paget, Tom Hopper and Mark Ryan. Steinberg is executive producing the series with Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller & Andrew Form (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Purge, Friday the 13th). McCreary has previously scored the first season of the Steinberg-produced show Human Target and also composed the music for Starz’s Da Vinci’s Demons.