David Fleming is an American Born composer who began his career in New York writing music for commercials and creating ringtones tones. In 2017 David composed the score for the BBC's internationally acclaimed Blue Planet II alongside Hans Zimmer, which marked the start of a collaborative relationship with the Academy Award-winning composer, encompassing music for films such as Dune, Hillbilly Elegy and Top Gun: Maverick. Recently David wrote the music for the HBO series the last of us, together with Gustavo Santaolalla. He also wrote the music to the Amazon series Mr and Mrs Smith. Netflix just released the film Damsel, a film starring Millie Bobby Brown for which David wrote the score.
In this edition of Composer Talk David Fleming talks about a few of his scores such as Hillbilly Elegy, The Last of Us, Mr & Mrs Smith and Damsel. He gives us an insight on his way of writing music.
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