Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the Apple TV original series Cape Fear. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Emmy Award winner Jeff Russo (Fargo, Star Trek: Discovery, Picard & Starfleet Academy, Alien: Earth, The Night Of, For All Mankind, Zero Day, Ripley, The Man Who Feel to Earth, Legion, Untamed). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, July 3 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. Cape Fear is created by Nick Antosca based on John D. MacDonald’s novel The Executioners and Gregory Peck’s 1962 feature of the same title and its 1991 remake directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Javier Bardem, Amy Adams, Patrick Wilson, Joe Anders, Lily Collias, CCH Pounder, Malia Pyles, Jamie Hector and Anna Baryshnikov.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 31, 2026)
Premiering on Tuesday, June 2, is the Hulu original series Not Suitable for Work created by Mindy Kaling and starring Ella Hunt, Avantika Vandanapu, Will Angus, Jack Martin, Nicholas Duvernay and Jay Ellis. The show’s original music is composed by Gabriel Mann (Modern Family, A Million Little Things, Emily in Paris, Rosewood, Better Nate Than Never, Rectify, High School Musical: The Musical – The Series, DMV) . Check out our previous news article for more information about the comedy, which will be available to stream exclusively on Hulu.
Premiering on Thursday, June 4, is the British Netflix limited series The Witness created by Rob Williams and starring Jordan Bolger, Max Fincham, Neil Maskell, Kerry Godliman, Kevin Eldon, Jahsaiah Williams, James Dryden, Jon Pointing, Mark Stanley and James Bradshaw. Oliver Coates (Aftersun, Pillion, 100 Nights of Hero, The History of Sound, Mary & George, Occupied City, The Stranger, Foe, Significant Other) has composed the show’s original music. Click here to learn more about the 3-part true crime drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.
Jeff Russo Scoring Apple TV’s ‘Cape Fear’
Jeff Russo (Fargo, Alien: Earth, Star Trek: Discovery & Picard, For All Mankind, Zero Day, The Night Of, Legion, Ripley, The Man Who Feel to Earth) is scoring the upcoming Apple TV limited series Cape Fear. The show is created by Nick Antosca (Candy, Antlers) and stars Javier Bardem, Amy Adams, Patrick Wilson, Joe Anders, CCH Pounder, Lily Collias, Malia Pyles, Jamie Hector and Anna Baryshnikov. The 10-part psychological horror thriller is based on both the novel The Executioners, which inspired Gregory Peck’s Universal Pictures 1962 feature (scored by Bernard Herrmann), as well as Martin Scorsese’s 1991 remake (featuring music by Herrmann adapted by Elmer Bernstein) and follows two happily married attorneys whose lives are shattered when the notorious killer they are responsible for putting behind bars is let out of prison.
Expanded ‘Cape Fear’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1991 psychological thriller Cape Fear directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Joe Don Baker, Juliette Lewis, Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peack. The album features the film’s newly remastered and expanded original score composed by Bernard Herrmann (originally written for the 1962 feature of the same title) adapted, arranged and conducted by Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, The Age of Innocence, Airplane, Far from Heaven), including around 15 minutes of previously unreleased music, as well as alternate cues. The 2-CD set is now available to order on Amazon and the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples and find out more about the release.