Sound

Ilan Eshkeri

Born April 7, 1977 · London, England (age 49)

Ilan Eshkeri (born 7 April 1977) is a British composer. His catalogue of film scores includes Still Alice, Stardust, The Young Victoria, Layer Cake, and Kick-Ass. He also composed music for the video game The Sims 4 and numerous concert works.

Known For

Kick-Ass

Kick-Ass · 2010

MovieActionCrime

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.

Shaun the Sheep Movie

Shaun the Sheep Movie · 2015

Shaun the Sheep Movie

MovieFamilyAnimation

When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.

Stardust

Stardust · 2007

MovieAdventureFantasy

In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his true identity.

Still Alice

Still Alice · 2014

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

Johnny English Reborn

Johnny English Reborn · 2011

Johnny English Reborn

MovieCrimeAction

The most prominent heads of state in the world begin gathering for a conference that could have a major impact on global politics. When MI-7 receives word that the Chinese premier has become the target of some high-powered killers, it falls on Johnny English to save the day. Armed with the latest high-tech weaponry and gadgets that would make even James Bond jealous, the once-disgraced agent uncovers evidence of a massive conspiracy involving some of the world's most powerful organisations, and vows to redeem his tarnished reputation by stopping the killers before they can strike.

Virgin Territory

Virgin Territory · 2007

Virgin Territory

MovieAdventureAction

In Black Death era Tuscany, as in the Decameron, ten young Florentines take refuge from the plague. But instead of telling stories, they have lusty adventures, bawdy exchanges, romance, swordplay, randy nuns, Saracen pirates, and a sexy cow.

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo · 2002

The Count of Monte Cristo

MovieAdventureDrama

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.

Open Range

Open Range · 2003

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.

Filmography

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Kick-Ass

Kick-Ass · 2010

MovieActionCrime

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.

Original Music Composer

Shaun the Sheep Movie

Shaun the Sheep Movie · 2015

Shaun the Sheep Movie

MovieFamilyAnimation

When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.

Original Music Composer

Stardust

Stardust · 2007

MovieAdventureFantasy

In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his true identity.

Original Music Composer

Still Alice

Still Alice · 2014

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

Original Music Composer

Johnny English Reborn

Johnny English Reborn · 2011

Johnny English Reborn

MovieCrimeAction

The most prominent heads of state in the world begin gathering for a conference that could have a major impact on global politics. When MI-7 receives word that the Chinese premier has become the target of some high-powered killers, it falls on Johnny English to save the day. Armed with the latest high-tech weaponry and gadgets that would make even James Bond jealous, the once-disgraced agent uncovers evidence of a massive conspiracy involving some of the world's most powerful organisations, and vows to redeem his tarnished reputation by stopping the killers before they can strike.

Original Music Composer

Virgin Territory

Virgin Territory · 2007

Virgin Territory

MovieAdventureAction

In Black Death era Tuscany, as in the Decameron, ten young Florentines take refuge from the plague. But instead of telling stories, they have lusty adventures, bawdy exchanges, romance, swordplay, randy nuns, Saracen pirates, and a sexy cow.

Music

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo · 2002

The Count of Monte Cristo

MovieAdventureDrama

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.

Production Assistant

Open Range

Open Range · 2003

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.

Orchestrator

47 Ronin

47 Ronin · 2013

MovieDramaAction

Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.

Original Music Composer

Ninja Assassin

Ninja Assassin · 2009

MovieActionAdventure

Ninja Assassin follows Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge.

Music

Reign of Fire

Reign of Fire · 2002

MovieAdventureAction

In post-apocalyptic England, an American volunteer and a British survivor team up to fight off a brood of fire-breathing dragons seeking to return to global dominance after centuries of rest underground. The Brit—leading a clan of survivors to hunt down the King of the Dragons—has much at stake: his mother was killed by a dragon, but his love is still alive.

Additional Music

The White Crow

The White Crow · 2018

The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the KGB.

Original Music Composer

Black Sea

Black Sea · 2014

MovieAdventureDrama

A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.

Original Music Composer

Survivor

Survivor · 2015

MovieActionCrime

A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit.

Original Music Composer

Layer Cake

Layer Cake · 2004

MovieDramaThriller

When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...

Original Music Composer

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry · 2023

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Until, one day – Harold learns his old friend Queenie is dying. Harold leaves home, walking to his post office to send her a letter. And out of the blue, Harold decides to keep walking, all the way to her hospice, 450 miles away.

Original Music Composer

Austenland

Austenland · 2013

MovieComedyRomance

Obsessed with the BBC production of "Pride and Prejudice", a woman travels to a Jane Austen theme park in search for her perfect gentleman.

Original Music Composer

Blitz

MovieCrimeAction

A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.

Original Music Composer

Ring of the Nibelungs

Ring of the Nibelungs · 2004

Ring of the Nibelungs

MovieActionAdventure

In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried after two malevolent kings murder his father. But a fiery meteor sent by the gods reveals Siegfried's destiny, sending him on the quest of a lifetime. To save a crumbling kingdom claim the heart of his true love, he'll have to slay the nefarious dragon, Fafnir.

Original Music Composer

I Give It a Year

I Give It a Year · 2013

I Give It a Year

MovieComedyRomance

After a quick courtship, two lovers hastily decide to tie the knot. As their first year of marriage unfolds, temptation and incompatibility put their relationship in jeopardy.

Original Music Composer

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story · 2024

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

MovieDocumentary

Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After becoming a quadriplegic, he became a charismatic leader and activist in the quest to find a cure for spinal cord injuries, as well as a passionate advocate for disability rights and care.

Original Music Composer

Centurion

Centurion · 2010

MovieAdventureAction

Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.

Original Music Composer

The Young Victoria

The Young Victoria · 2009

The Young Victoria

MovieDramaHistory

As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man who will become the love of her life.

Original Music Composer

Collide

Collide · 2016

MovieThrillerAction

An American backpacker gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver, and winds up on the run from his employers across Cologne’s autobahns.

Original Music Composer

MobLand

MobLand · 2025

SeriesCrimeDrama

Two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives.

Original Music Composer

Strike Back

Strike Back · 2010

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.

Music

SAS Rogue Heroes

SAS Rogue Heroes · 2022

SAS Rogue Heroes

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

The dramatised account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two.

Original Music Composer

House of Guinness

House of Guinness · 2025

House of Guinness

Dublin, 1868. The Guinness family patriarch is dead, and his four children — each with dark secrets to hide — hold the brewery's fate in their hands.

Original Music Composer

A Perfect Planet

A Perfect Planet · 2021

A Perfect Planet

SeriesDocumentary

A unique fusion of blue chip natural history and earth science that explains how our living planet operates. This five-part series shows how the forces of nature drive, shape and support Earth’s great diversity of wildlife.

Original Music Composer

Ring of the Nibelungs

Ring of the Nibelungs · 2004

Ring of the Nibelungs

SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy

The young blacksmith Siegfried, who, not knowing that he is heir to a conquered kingdom, becomes popular with the Burgunds by slaying their bane, the dragon Fafnir. When the reward seems to be a huge treasure, Siegfried ignores the curse that lies on the hoard - which now seems to endanger his love to beautiful Norse warrior queen Brunhild.

Original Music Composer

Fleming

Fleming · 2014

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

Set at the outbreak of WWII – mischievous playboy Ian Fleming is untroubled by the specter of impending war – chasing women, collecting rare books and living off his family fortune. Forever in the shadow of his brother Peter, and an eternal disappointment to his formidable mother Eve, Fleming dreams of becoming the ‘ultimate’ man – a hero, a lover, a brute and the one who always gets the girl. He is finally given some direction in his life when he’s recruited by the Director of Naval Intelligence to help in the effort against the Nazis. Suddenly, Fleming finds his chance to shine and prove his worth.

Original Music Composer

Informer

Informer · 2018

SeriesDramaCrime

Raza, a young second-generation British-Pakistani man from London is coerced by Gabe, a counterterrorism officer, into informing.

Music

Planet Dinosaur

Planet Dinosaur · 2011

Planet Dinosaur

SeriesDocumentary

The stories of the biggest, deadliest and weirdest creatures ever to walk the Earth, using the latest fossil evidence and immersive computer graphics.

Compositors

Doctor Thorne

Doctor Thorne · 2016

The story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt/cousins at Greshamsbury Park estate.

Music

Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough

Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough · 2015

Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough

SeriesDocumentary

Following his visit to the Great Barrier Reef in 1957, naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough returns and uses the latest filming techniques to unlock the secrets of the natural wonder.

Original Music Composer