Netflix Music will release a soundtrack album for the romantic crime comedy Hit Man. The album features the film’s original music composed by Graham Reynolds (A Scanner Darkly, Bernie, Before Midnight, Last Flag Flying, Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Sister Aimee). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 31 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Hit Man is co-written and directed by Richard Linklater and stars Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio, Retta, Molly Bernard, Sanjay Rao and Evan Holtzman. The movie follows a mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man in police stings who ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client.
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (May 24, 2024)
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the post-apocalyptic action adventure Furiosa: A Mad Max Story co-written and directed by George Miller and starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke and Alyla Browne. The film’s original music is composed by Tom Holkenborg (Mad Max: Fury Road, Sonic the Hedgehog, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Deadpool, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Alita: Battle Angel). WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last Friday. Check out our previous article for the full album details and click here to check out the music team credits of the Warner Bros. Pictures release.
Also opening wide is the animated feature The Garfield Movie directed by Mark Dindal and starring Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillén, Brett Goldstein and Bowen Yang. John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Elf, Iron Man 2, The Jungle Book) has composed the film’s original score. Michael Hodges serves as the project’s executive music producer and co-wrote most of the original songs. Republic/ASG Records have released a soundtrack album featuring the songs and three tracks of Debney’s score last week. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and click here to check out the music team credits of the movie, which is being released by Sony Pictures.
Graham Reynolds Scoring Richard Linklater’s ‘Hit Man’
Composer Graham Reynolds is reuniting with director Richard Linklater on the upcoming crime comedy Hit Man. The film starring Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio & Retta revolves around a philosophy professor by day, lecturing his students on theories of morality, while – in his downtime – also works with the police in surveillance vans as a tech-savvy staff investigator during undercover sting operations. Linklater and Powell also co-wrote the screenplay.