According to the LA Times, Bruce Hornsby is set to score Spike Lee’s upcoming English-language remake of Old Boy. The film is based on the critically acclaimed Korean film directed by Chan-wook Park. Josh Brolin is set to star as a man who is kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years for unknown reasons and sets out to find out who held him hostage and why when he is inexplicably released. Elizabeth Olsen, Samuel L. Jackson and Sharlto Copley (District 9) are also attached to star in the Mandate Pictures production. Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend, The Cell) has written the script and is co-producing the project, while Roy Lee and Doug Davison (The Strangers, The Lake House) are producing.
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‘Red Hook Summer’ Soundtrack Details
The details for two different soundtrack albums for Spike Lee’s indie drama Red Hook Summer have been revealed. First up is a soundtrack featuring the film’s songs by Judith Hill. The album will be released on July 31, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The full track list and audio clips are available after the jump. Coming out on the same day is a soundtrack featuring the film’s music by Bruce Hornsby who makes his major film scoring debut on the project. The album can be pre-ordered here and audio clips are also available below. Red Hook Summer written and directed by Lee enters on a boy from Atlanta who lands at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met.
Spike Lee’s ‘Red Hook Summer’ to Feature Music by Bruce Hornsby
Bruce Hornsby is the composer of the upcoming indie drama Red Hook Summer. The film is written and directed by Spike Lee and stars Clarke Peters (The Wire), Jules Brown, Toni Lysaith, Nate Parker, James Ransone and Thomas Jefferson Byrd. The movie centers on a boy from Atlanta who lands at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met. Lee is co-producing the film with James McBride who has written the script for Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna. The director has previously worked with composer Terence Blanchard on most of the his features in the last two decades, including such films such as Malcolm X and Inside Man. Hornsby is a multiple Grammy Award winner and best known for his song The Way It Is with Bruce Hornsby and the Range (which also included film composer David Mansfield) in the 1980s.