Craig Armstrong (Moulin Rouge!, Love Actually, Romeo + Juliet, The Great Gatsby, The Incredible Hulk, Ray, The Quiet American) is the new composer of the Channel 4/Peacock original series The Undeclared War. The Grammy Award winner has written the score for the second season of the show written by Colin Teevan (Das Boot, Rebellion) and starring Simon Pegg, Siân Brooke, Hannah Khalique-Brown, Alex Jennings, Danny Sapani, Ed Stoppard and Chloe Pirrie. The 6-part thriller directed by Paul McGuigan (Lucky Number Slevin, Wicker Park) is set immediately after the end of the first season as the team in the Malware Department at GCHQ come to terms with a massive Russian cyber-attack and realize that Russia were not the real architects of the attack.
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J. Ralph to Score Paul McGuigan’s ‘Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool’
J. Ralph is set to compose the music for the upcoming romantic drama Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool. The film is directed by Paul McGuigan (Push, Wicker Park, Victor Frankenstein) and stars Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Walters, Kenneth Cranham, Stephen Graham, Frances Barber and Leanne Best. The movie tells the true story of the young Liverpudlian actor Peter Turner who fell in love with the older Hollywood golden age actress Gloria Grahame. Matt Greenhalgh (Control, Nowhere Boy) has written the screenplay based on Turner’s 1986 memoir of the same title. Barbara Broccoli (James Bond series) is producing the project with Colin Vaines (Coriolanus) for Synchronistic Pictures.
‘Victor Frankenstein’ Soundtrack Details
The full details of the soundtrack album for the horror thriller Victor Frankenstein have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Craig Armstrong (Moulin Rouge!, The Great Gatsby, Love Actually, The Incredible Hulk). The soundtrack will be released on November 20, 2015 by La-La Land Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Victor Frankenstein is directed by Paul McGuigan and stars Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott and Freddie Fox. The movie follows Frankenstein and his faithful assistant, Igor, as the two romp through Victorian England stealing body parts and trading banter as they try to unlock the secret to immortality.
Craig Armstrong to Score Paul McGuigan’s ‘Frankenstein’
Director Paul McGuigan announced on Twitter that Craig Armstrong will be composing the music for the upcoming horror thriller Frankenstein. The film based on a number of contemporary adaptations of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel of the same title stars Daniel Radcliffe as hunchback Igor and James McAvoy as Victor Frankenstein. Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott and Mark Gatiss are co-starring. No plot details have been announced yet. Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra) has written the screenplay and John Davis (Predator, I, Robot, Waterworld, The Blacklist) is producing the project for Davis Entertainment.