Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout & Dead Reckoning, His Dark Materials, Top Gun: Maverick, Black Widow, Black Adam, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, The Wheel of Time) has been hired to score the upcoming drama The Species. The film is directed by Justin Chadwick (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, The Other Boleyn Girl) and stars Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Hopkins, Mia McKenna-Bruce and Tom Hollander. The movie follows recently widowed Emma Darwin who – following the death of famed naturalist Charles Darwin – finds herself locked in a battle with her son and a pushy publisher over her husband’s autobiography.
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‘Brothers Under Fire’ Soundtrack Album Details
Filmtrax/Atlantic Screen Music will release a soundtrack album for the action thriller Brothers Under Fire. The album features the film’s original music composed by Alex Heffes (The Last King of Scotland, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Touching the Void, The Regime, Queen of Katwe, State of Play, Shardlake, The Rite). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 17 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Syria) below. Brothers Under Fire is directed by Justin Chadwick and stars Kiefer Sutherland, Omar Chaparro, Laura Osma, Ashton Sanders, Tommy Martinez, Laird Akeo and Solly McLeod. The movie follows a captain whose squadron on leave for a wedding in Mexico as he encounters a murderous cartel and is forced into a battle to save his men when war erupts between his squad and the cartel.
Alex Heffes Scoring Justin Chadwick’s ‘Brothers Under Fire’
Composer Alex Heffes (The Last King of Scotland, Queen of Katwe, Touching the Void, The Regime, State of Play, Shardlake, The Rite) is reuniting with director Justin Chadwick (Tulip Fever, The Other Boleyn Girl) on the upcoming action thriller Brothers Under Fire. The film stars Kiefer Sutherland as a captain whose squadron on leave for a wedding in Mexico encounters a murderous cartel and is forced into a battle to save his men when war erupts between his squad and the cartel. Omar Chaparro, Laura Osma, Tommy Martinez and Ashton Sanders are co-starring.
‘Shardlake’ Soundtrack Album Released
Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album for the British Hulu/Disney+ original series Shardlake. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Alex Heffes (The Last King of Scotland, Queen of Katwe, The Regime, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Touching the Void, The Rite, State of Play). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s main theme after the jump. Shardlake is written by Stephen Butchard based on C.J. Sansom’s popular novels and stars Arthur Hughes, Sean Bean, Anthony Boyle, Babou Ceesay, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, Paul Kaye, Matthew Steer, Brian Vernel, Peter Firth, David Pearse, Miles Barrow, Irfan Shamji, Mike Noble and Kimberley Nixon.
Alex Heffes Scoring Hulu’s & Disney+’s ‘Shardlake’
Composer Alex Heffes (The Last King of Scotland, Queen of Katwe, The Rite, Touching the Void, State of Play) is reuniting with director Justin Chadwick on the new British Hulu/Disney+ original series Shardlake. The show is written by Stephen Butchard (The Last Kingdom, Baghdad Central) based on the popular novels by C.J. Sansom, directed by Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl, Tulip Fever) and stars Arthur Hughes, Sean Bean, Anthony Boyle, Babou Ceesay, Paul Kaye, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, Matthew Steer, Peter Firth, Brian Vernel, David Pearse, Irfan Shamji, Miles Barrow, Mike Noble and Kimberley Nixon. The 4-part murder mystery is set in 16th century England during the dissolution of the monasteries and follows the title character whose sheltered life as a lawyer is turned upside down when he gets instructed to investigate the murder of one of his commissioners at a monastery.
Alex Heffes Scoring ITV’s ‘Next of Kin’
Alex Heffes has composed the original score for the first couple of episodes of the new ITV drama Next of Kin. The show is created by Paul Rutman (Indian Summers, Vera) & Natasha Narayan and stars Archie Panjabi and Jack Davenport. The 6-part series follows a Mona, a whip-smart GP who lives in London with a political lobbyist husband. Their family life is shattered when Mona’s brother is brutally murdered while working for a medical charity abroad. Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl) has directed the first three episodes.
‘Tulip Fever’ Soundtrack Details
Sony Classical will release a soundtrack album for the period drama Tulip Fever. The album features the film’s original music composed by Danny Elfman (Batman, Spider-Man, Alice in Wonderland, A Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 24, 2017 and physically a few weeks later. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD and click here to download the soundtrack. Tulip Fever is directed by Justin Chadwick and stars Alicia Vikander, Dan DeHaan, Christoph Waltz, Holliday Grainger, Jack O’Connell, Zach Galifianakis, Dame Judi Dench, Matthew Morrison, Tom Hollander and Cara Delevingne. The movie is set in 17th-century Amsterdam and follows a married woman who begins a passionate affair with an artist hired to paint her portrait.
Danny Elfman to Score Justin Chadwick’s ‘Tulip Fever’
Danny Elfman revealed in a recent interview with LIVE105 that he will be composing the music for the upcoming period drama Tulip Fever. The film is directed by Justin Chadwick (The Other Boyleyn Girl) and stars Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, Jack O’Connell, Christoph Waltz, Holliday Grainger, Zach Galifianakis, Judi Dench, Matthew Morrison, Tom Hollander, Cara Delevingne and Cressida Bonas. The movie is set in 17th century Amsterdam and follows a married woman who begins a passionate affair with an artist hired to paint her portrait. Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, Empire of the Sun, Brazil) has written the screenplay based on the romance novel by Deborah Moggach. Alison Owen (Saving Mr. Banks, Jane Eyre, Elizabeth) is producing the project for Ruby Films.
Alex Heffes to Score ‘Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom’
Alex Heffes has been hired to score the upcoming biographical drama Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. The film is directed by Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl) and stars Idris Elba in the title role as the South African civil rights leader and Naomie Harris as Nelson Mandela’s wife, Winnie. Tony Kgoroge, Riaad Moosa, Zolani Mkiva, Jamie Bartlett, Lindiwe Matshikiza, Deon Lotz and Terry Pheto are co-starring. William Nicholson (Gladiator, Les Miserables) has written the screenplay based on Mandela’s autobiography. The movie is produced by Anant Singh (Pulse) who started communicating with Mandela about making a film based on his life while he was still in prison and acquired the film rights to Mandela’s book at the time of its publication in 1996. Heffes has previously collaborated with Chadwick on his previous feature The First Grader.