Composer Ernst Reijseger is set to reteam with director Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn) on the upcoming drama Bucking Fastard. The film is written and directed by Herzog and stars Kate Mara, Rooney Mara, Orlando Bloom and Domhnall Gleeson. The movie follows two sisters in search of an imaginary land, where true love is possible, as they start digging a tunnel through an entire mountain range.
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Soundtrack for Werner Herzog’s ‘Salt and Fire’ Announced
Winter & Winter will release a soundtrack album for Werner Herzog’s upcoming thriller Salt and Fire. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ernst Reijseger who previously collaborated with the filmmaker on such titles as Cave of the Forgotten Dreams, The White Diamond, The White Blue Yonder and My Son, My Son, What Have You Done. The soundtrack will be released overseas on March 18, 2016 and in the U.S. on May 6. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. Salt and Fire is written and directed by Herzog and stars Michael Shannon, Gael Garcia Bernal and Veronica Ferres. The movie follows a scientist in South America who clashes with the head of the corporation responsible for an ecological disaster.
Klaus Badelt to Score Werner Herzog’s ‘Queen of the Desert’
Klaus Badelt is set to reunite with director Werner Herzog on the upcoming biographical drama Queen of the Desert. The film written and directed by Herzog stars Nicole Kidman as Gertrude Bell, the iconic explorer, writer, archeologist and attaché for the British Empire who helped to catalyze the formation of the Middle East at the dawn of the 20th century. Damian Lewis, Robert Pattinson and James Franco are co-starring. Nick Raslan is producing the Palmyra Films and Benaroya Pictures production with Cassian Elwes (Lee Daniels’ The Butler, The Paperboy) and Michael Benaroya (Lawless, The Words, Margin Call). Badelt has previously collaborated with Herzog on such films as Rescue Dawn, Invincible and the documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga.