Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the drama Nickel Boys. The album features the film’s original music composed by Alex Somers (Captain Fantastic, Honey Boy, Causeway, Fresh, Aloha, Together, Together, Charm City Kings, Dawson City: Frozen Time) & Scott Alario (Hale County This Morning, This Evening). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, December 6 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the first two tracks below. Nickel Boys is co-written and directed by RaMell Ross and stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Fred Hechinger, Hamish Linklater, Daveed Diggs and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. The movie is based on the book of the same title by Colson Whitehead and follows an idealistic high schooler whose aims of attending college are upended when racist law officials falsely accuse him of a crime and he gets sent to an abusive reformatory school, where he forms a friendship and strikes up an alliance with another teen.
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Alex Somers & Scott Alario Scoring RaMell Ross’ ‘Nickel Boys’
Alex Somers (Captain Fantastic, Honey Boy, Fresh, Causeway, Aloha, Charm City Kings, Together, Together, Dawson City: Frozen Time) & Scott Alario have composed the original score for the upcoming drama Nickel Boys. The film is directed by RaMell Ross and stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger and Daveed Diggs. The movie based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is set in Jim Crow-era Florida and follows an idealistic Black high schooler whose aims of attending college are upended when racist law officials falsely accuse and then convict him of a crime and he gets sent to an abusive reformatory school.