Exclusive: James Edward Barker Signs On To Score Documentary 'The Bachelor King 3D'

by Kevin Jagernauth
October 8, 2011 12:30 PM
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Signs Soundtrack Deal With Movie Score Media

U.K.  composer James  Edward  Barker  has  signed  on to  score  the  SKY  3D  and  IMAX  release  of "The  Bachelor  King 3D."  The  film , a documentary about penguins in South Georgia, will  be  narrated  by  Sir  David  Attenborough  and  is  produced  by  Anthony  Geffen’s  Atlantic  Pictures,  the  same  team  behind  the  BAFTA  award  winning  "Flying  With  Monsters." The  film  will  premiere  on  SKY  3D at  the  end  of  the  year  and  is  then  due  for  release  in  IMAX  cinemas  and  a  subsequent  national  theatrical  release  in  the  U.K.  in  early  2012.

Barker,  who  recently  scored the  terrifyingly  brutal "The  Human  Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)"   and  Andrew  Haighs’ acclaimed gay romance "Weekend,"  has  also  signed  a  multi‐soundtrack  deal  with  Swedish  music  label,  Movie  Score  Media. The  label,  headed  up  by  Mikael  Carlsson, plans  to  release  two  albums  this  fall  following  Barker’s  soundtracks  to  Karl  Golden’s  "Weekender"  (distributed  in  U.K.  through  Momentum  Pictures)  and the  up  and  coming  U.S.  DVD  release  of  Mark  McQueen’s  "Devils  Playground."

Barker  also  recently  scored  Lionsgate’s  "The  Holding,"  released  in  early  September  in  the  U.K.,  and is  also  due  to  score the  war  horror  flick  "The  4th Reich " and  "The  Vanishment " –  a  supernatural  horror  written  by  Andrew  Haigh  –  which  Barker  will  co –compose  alongside  Christopher  Young  ("The  Exorcism  of  Emily  Rose," " The Grudge").