Composer Craig DeLeon Looks To Build A “Campfire” With ‘The Last Days Of Ptolemy Grey’ Score – Hear An Exclusive Track
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first exclusive track from Craig DeLeon’s score for The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray, which is set for digital release via Lakeshore Records on March 11, as the Apple TV+ series debuts globally with its first two episodes.In the six-episode limited series based on Walter Mosley’s novel of the same name, starring Samuel L.
Jackson, Dominique Fishback and Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, Jackson plays Ptolemy Grey, an ailing man forgotten by his family, by his friends, and even by himself.
Suddenly left without his trusted caretaker and on the brink of sinking even deeper into a lonely dementia, Ptolemy is assigned to the care of orphaned teenager Robyn (Fishback).
When they learn about a treatment that can restore Ptolemy’s dementia-addled memories, it begins a journey toward shocking truths about the past, present and future.“When I was asked to score The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, the producers allowed me to do what I absolutely love about film scoring in the first place: to create a world within which a story is told and emotions are felt,” said DeLeon. “It’s about sonic world building for me.
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