Lorne Balfe has been hired to score the upcoming war drama Horse Soldiers. The film is directed by Nicolai Fuglsig and stars Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña, Ben O’Toole, Trevante Rhodes, Austin Stowell, Elsa Pataky, Rob Riggle and Navid Negahban. The movie is based on Doug Stanton’s book of the same title and centers on a U.S. Special Forces team and their captain after they are dispatched to a mountainous region of Afghanistan in the weeks immediately following 9/11. Peter Craig (The Town, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay) and Ted Tally (The Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon0 wrote the screenplay.