Joe Wright’s Venice-Bound Mussolini Series ‘M’ Reveals First Trailer, Featuring Techno Score by the Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent Sky and Fremantle have released the first teaser-trailer for “M – Son of the Century,” the hotly anticipated series about Benito Mussolini’s rise to power that will launch from the upcoming Venice Film Festival.
The kaleidoscopic eight-episode show is helmed by Joe Wright, the British director of Winston Churchill drama “Darkest Hour” – which earned Gary Oldman an Oscar for his portrayal as the British prime minister – and also of “Atonement,” among other titles.
The pulsating “M” soundtrack is composed by Tom Rowlands, also known for being part of pioneering British electronic music duo The Chemical Brothers. “You can play with the aesthetics and the form of the piece.
The score is going to be this kind of techno score,” Wright told Variety last year on set at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios, where the show was shot entirely. “And the aesthetics are a kind of mashup between ’90s rave culture and ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ [the 1929 seminal avant-garde doc by Dziga Vertov], a great Ukrainian film.
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