Varese Sarabande Records will release a soundtrack album for the upcoming adventure thriller Largo Winch II. The album includes 20 tracks of Alexandre Desplat’s score for the movie. Also known as The Burma Conspiracy, the film is a sequel to the 2008 thriller Largo Winch, which also featured a score by Desplat and is available to download on iTunes. The album will only be released as a physical CD in Europe, but will receive a digital release on iTunes in the US. The album release date has been scheduled for March 22, 2011. Largo Winch II stars Tomer Sisley and Sharon Stone and will receive a release in France on February 16. There are no current plans for a domestic release of the film. To find out more about the movie, visit the French movie webpage and check out the trailer below.
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Alexandre Desplat to score The Gardener
UPDATE (February 24, 2011): The Gardener has recently received a new title: 
A Better Life.
Alexandre Desplat has been hired to score the upcoming drama The Gardener. In the movie, a gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city’s wealthy landowners. The Gardener is directed by Chris Weitz who previously worked with Desplat on The Golden Compass and The Twilight Saga: New Moon. The indie drama stars Demian Bichir. No release date has been set yet for the Summit Entertainment movie.