Madison Gate Records has released a soundtrack album for the romantic comedy Austenland. The album features the film’s original score composed by Ilan Eshkeri (Stardust, Layer Cake, The Young Victoria), as well as the movie’s original songs by Emmy the Great. The soundtrack is now available to download on iTunes, where you can also listen to audio clips. Austenland is written and directed by Jerusha Hess and stars Keri Russell, JJ Feild, Bret McKenzie, Jennifer Coolidge, James Callis, Georgia King, Rupert Vansittart, Ricky Whittle and Jane Seymour. The movie follows a single woman in her 30′s obsessed with Mr. Darcy of the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice who decides to spend her life savings on a trip to a Jane Austen-themed resort in England. The film premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and will be released in select cities this Friday, August 16 by Sony Pictures Classics.
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Ilan Eshkeri to Score ‘Austenland’
Ilan Eshkeri has been hired to score the indie romantic comedy Austenland. The film based on a novel by Shannon Hale marks the directorial debut of Jerusha Hess who is best known for co-writing the screenplay of the 2004 indie hit Napoleon Dynamite with her husband Jared Hess. Austenland stars Keri Russell as a single woman in her 30’s who is obsessed with Mr. Darcy of the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. When she decides to decides to spend her life savings on a trip to a Jane Austen-themed resort in England, the woman’s dream of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman becomes more real than she could have imagined. JJ Feild, Bret McKenzie, Jennifer Coolidge, Jane Seymour, Rupert Vansittart and James Callis are co-starring. Stephanie Meyer, author of the Twilight books, is among the producers on the project.