David Buckley (The Sandman, Greenland, Nobody, The Nice Guys, Papillon, Jason Bourne, Angel Has Fallen, Nobody, Shelter, The Forbidden Kingdom) has been tapped to score the upcoming CBS drama Cupertino. The show is created by Robert & Michelle King and stars Mike Colter, Rachel Keller, Ella Stiller, Nik Dodani, Busy Phillips and Reneé Elise Goldsberry.. The legal drama is set in the heart of Silicon Valley and follows a lawyer who is cheated out of his stock options by his former employer, a tech start-up and joins forces with another recently fired attorney to represent those taken advantage of by the tech elite and help them fight back in a high-stakes battle against the Goliaths controlling Silicon Valley.
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David Buckley Scoring CBS’ ‘Elsbeth’ Pilot
David Buckley (Nobody, Papillon, Angel Has Fallen, The Forbidden Kingdom, Kandahar) is returning to score the new CBS drama Elsbeth. The composer has scored the pilot episode of the show created by Robert & Michelle King and starring Carrie Preston who reprises her role of Elsbeth Tascioni from the network’s The Good Wife and its spinoff The Good Fight, as well as Wendell Pierce, Carra Patterson and guest star Stephen Moyer. Siddhartha Khosla (This Is Us, Only Murders in the Building) is scoring the rest of the season, which follows the title character, an unconventional attorney who utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations who – after leaving her successful legal career in Chicago – takes on a new investigative role in New York City.
David Buckley Scoring CBS’ ‘Evil’
David Buckley is reuniting with writers/producers Robert & Michelle King on the CBS supernatural drama pilot Evil. The show starring Katja Herbers, Mike Colter and Michael Emerson centers on a skeptical female forensic psychologist who joins a priest-in-training and a blue-collar contractor as they investigate supposed miracles, demonic possessions, and other extraordinary occurrences to see if there’s a scientific explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work. The Kings are also executive producing the CBS Television production with Liz Glotzer (Bernie, The Mist, Music and Lyrics).
David Buckley to Score CBS’ ‘The Good Fight’
David Buckley has been hired to score the upcoming CBS drama The Good Fight. The show is created by Robert & Michelle King and stars Christine Baranski, Cush Jumbo, Rose Leslie, Delroy Lindo, Sarah Steele, Justin Bartha, Erica Tazel, Paul Guilfoyle and Bernadette Peters. The drama is a spin-off to the network’s series The Good Wife and picks up one year after the events of the show’s final episode. The Kings are also executive producing the project with Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams) who co-wrote the premiere, as well as Ridley Scott & David Zucker (The Man in the High Castle, The Pillars of the Earth), Liz Glotzer (Friends with Benefits, The Mist), Brooke Kennedy and Alison Cross.
David Buckley to Score CBS’ ‘BrainDead’
David Buckley has been tapped to score the upcoming CBS drama BrainDead. The show is created by Robert & Michelle King and stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Tveit, Danny Pino, Nikki M. James and Tony Shalhoub. The series follows a fresh-faced Hill staffer whose first job in D.C. leads her to discover two things: The government has stopped working, and alien spawn have come to Earth and eaten the brains of a growing number of congressmen and Hill staffers. Robert and Michelle King are also executive producing the CBS Television Studios production with Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker (The Man in the High Castle, Numb3rs) and Brooke Kennedy (Pushing Daisies, Third Watch).