Marco Beltrami has signed to score upcoming Russian epic drama MATILDA about the love affair between the last russian tsar Nicholas II and the legendary ballerina Mathilde Kshesinskaya.
The movie stars Danila Kozlovsky, Lars Eidinger, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite and others. Directed by Aleksey Uchitel (THE EDGE), the movie is curretnly in post-production and is planned to be released on September 10th in Russia. So far no international release dates have been announced.
For a moment, I was afraid we were getting a remake of the Mara Wilson movie and immediately thought "From David Newman to Marco Beltrami?...interesting". I'm a moron.
For a moment, I was afraid we were getting a remake of the Mara Wilson movie and immediately thought "From David Newman to Marco Beltrami?...interesting". I'm a moron.
Hell, I saw the headline and thought Luc Besson had finally made his Natalie Portman-centric sequel to The Professional.
The movie generated a LOT of international media coverage. Tsar Nicholas II has been declared a saint in the Russian Orthodox church. Since the film is about a love affair he had in his youth, religious fundamentalists in Russia have declared the film sacrilegious and there were bomb threats and death threats when it came out:
