Kris Bowers (Bridgerton, Green Book, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Mrs. America, Inventing Anna, Dear White People, When They See Us) has recently scored the new HBO limited series We Own This City. The show is developed by George Pelecanos & David Simon (The Wire, Treme, The Deuce) and stars Jon Bernthal, Wunmi Mosaku, Jamie Hector, Josh Charles, McKinley Belcher III, Dagmara Domińczyk, Don Harvey, Rob Brown, David Corenswet, Ian Duff, Larry Mitchell and Lucas Van Enge. The 6-part drama is directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green and chronicles the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work.
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Nathan Larson Scoring HBO’s’ ‘Show Me a Hero’
Nathan Larson has composed the music for the HBO mini-series Show Me a Hero. The 6-parter is created by David Simon (The Wire, Treme) and stars Oscar Isaac, Catherine Keener, Alfred Molina, Winona Ryder, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Bob Balaban, Jim Belushi and Jon Bernthal. Paul Haggis (Crash, The Next Three Days) has directed all episodes. The series based on the 1999 book of the same title by New York Times writer Lisa Belki is set in the 1960s and follows a young mayor of a mid-sized city who is faced with a federal court order to build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town.