Lakeshore Records is set to release 
The Day of the Jackal—Original Series Soundtrack today, December 13, Featuring an original score by Oscar and BAFTA Award-winning composer Volker Bertelmann (All Quiet On The Western Front). Bertelmann keeps the orchestra taught and angular in his score and maintains a dark tension throughout. The dramatic thriller is produced by Carnival Films, which is part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group. Reimagined into this series by writer Ronan Bennet and lead director Brian Kirk, it stars Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch and the full season is streaming now on Peacock in the US as well as on Sky and streaming service NOW in the UK.
The Day of the Jackal, which recently garnered two Golden Globe and two Critics Choice nominations, is based on the 1971 classic thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth, subsequently adapted into a critically acclaimed film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox, which was nominated for a host of awards and soon became a classic of the genre.
The Sky and Peacock Original ten-episode drama follows an elite assassin, The Jackal (Eddie Redmayne) as he works towards carrying out a seemingly impossible hit. However, his actions soon attract the attention of a British intelligence officer, Bianca (Lashana Lynch), who sets out to hunt him down before his next kill.
Notes Bertelmann: “Working on such a great thriller series and collaborating with Brian Kirk and all the other directors on the show was a pleasure and a wonderful experience. I think Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch are amazing and to make the music for a series like that is a pleasure and a lot of fun!!”
Track List
- Opening
- The Jackal
- Pinwheel
- Observation
- Getaway
- Free Country
- Lookout Meeting
- Adiós
- Bavaria
- Helle Linie
- Infiltration
- We Had a Great Life
- The Canal
- The Concert
- Stabilizer
- Stay Under Water
- Check the Car
- I Quit
- Set the Truck on Fire
- Nice and Easy
- Don’t Draw It Out
- Take Him Alive
- Face to Face
- Congratulations
- Postlude
Purchase / Stream the Album: https://lnk.to/TheDayOfTheJackal
ABOUT VOLKER BERTELMANN
Volker Bertelmann is an internationally-acclaimed pianist, composer and experimental musician. In 2023 he was honoured with an Academy Award and a BAFTA in the Best Score category for his work on All Quiet on the Western Front (directed by Edward Berger). Bertelmann’s latest project is Conclave for which he collaborated with director Edward Berger again. The film has garnered critical acclaim at the Telluride and Toronto International Film Festivals, securing Volker a Golden Globe nomination in the Best Original Score – Motion Picture category. His most recent projects are the prequel series Dune: Prophecy (HBO Max), the Peacock series The Day of the Jackal, and the documentary Hollywoodgate.
His score to Garth Davis’ Oscar-nominated film Lion, which he composed in collaboration with Dustin O’Halloran, was nominated for multiple awards: Oscar for Best Original Score, Golden Globe for Best Original Score, Best Score at the Critics’ Choice Awards, and for Best Film Music at the BAFTAs.
Bertelmann has provided music for several leading films and television series. He composed the score for Patrick Melrose, The Old Guard, Stowaway, the episode “Beyond The Sea” from Black Mirror, and Life After Life for BBC. He also composed film scores for Adrift, the 2018 romantic drama directed by Baltasa Kormákur, and, again in collaboration with O’Halloran, for Ammonite, which was short-listed for The Academy Awards in 2020. In 2022, he scored War Sailor, which was an official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival. His film One Lifepremiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. His most recent film work was on Lionsgate’s The Crow which premiered this summer.
Bertelmann, who in his solo work goes by the name Hauschka, is a uniquely innovative pianist; he is renowned both for his trademark sound, which he achieves by preparing the piano with various small objects, and his ability to improvise entire performances. His output is prodigious: he tours extensively, and has produced over twenty albums and EPs, both solo and in collaboration with others. He has worked, among many others, with the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, where he was the artist in residence, with Múm, the Icelandic experimental musical group, and with the Grammy-winning violinist Hilary Hahn.
Bertelmann is an active member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
ABOUT LAKESHORE RECORDS
Lakeshore Records is a GRAMMY-winning record label, and the soundtrack arm of the Cutting Edge Group. Lakeshore Records is the global independent leader in top line soundtrack album releases, including such popular, critically acclaimed and classic soundtracks as Bridgerton, Stranger Things, Wednesday, Fallout, John Wick, Whiplash, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Drive, Cyberpunk 2077 / Edgerunners, Star Trek: Picard, Bojack Horseman, The Walking Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Red Dead Redemption 2, the GRAMMY-winning Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok, the Academy Award nominated Lady Bird and Academy Award winners Moonlight, Little Miss Sunshine, American Factory, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Hurt Locker and many, many more.
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