Get the latest gossip
‘The Day Of The Jackal’s Oscar-Winning Composer Volker Bertelmann On Challenges Of Making Music For A Series – Sound & Screen TV
Oscar-winning composer Volker Bertelmann discusses the challenges that come with composing for a TV series as opposed to a movie.
To create the music for Peacock’s The Day of the Jackal, composer Volker Bertelmann focused on the “mathematic brain” of Eddie Redmayne’s title character — considered an unrivaled and highly elusive lone assassin. Bertelman, who won his first Oscar in 2023 for composing on All Quiet on the Western Front, said it was the casting of Redmayne that attracted him to the Peacock series. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer (Lynch) who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.
Or read this on Deadline