Sky Music has released a soundtrack album for the British television movie The Amazing Mr Blunden. The album features the film’s original music composed by Blair Mowat (Nolly, Class, McDonald & Dodds, Doctor Jekyll, Black Dog, After the Flood, Electric Man). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. The Amazing Mr Blunden is written and directed by Mark Gatiss and stars Simon Callow, Tsion Habte, Jason Rennie, Tamsin Greig, Gatiss himself, India Fowler, Elliot Levey, Vinette Robinson, Spike Fearn, Sean Gilder and Kitty Archer. The fantasy comedy based on the 70s classic of the same title (scored by Elmer Bernstein) follows two kids who become involved in a mystery when they discover ghost children after moving to an old country house.
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David Arnold & Michael Price to Score BBC’s & Netflix’s ‘Dracula’
David Arnold has revealed on Twitter that he is attached to co-score the upcoming BBC and Netflix mini-series Dracula with Michael Price. The show is written and created by Steven Moffat & Mark Gatiss and inspired by Bram Stoker’s classic novel. No casting announcements have been made yet. The 3-parter is set in Transylvania in 1897 and follows the the title character as he is drawing his plans against Victorian London. Moffat (Doctor Who, The Adventures of Tintin) & Gatiss are also executive producing the project with Sue Vertue for Hartswood Films, Ben Irving for BBC and Larry Tanz (Castlevania, Watership Down) for Netflix.