BLACK BAG
| Project Title | Black Bag |
| Release Date | 14 March 2025 |
| Role | Music Editor |
| Director | Steven Soderbergh |
| Composer | David Holmes |
| Producers | Gregory Jacobs, Christof Neracher, Casey Silver |
| Studios | Universal Pictures & Focus Features |
| Starring | Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett, Pierce Brosnan, Gustaf Skarsgård, Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke, amongst others |
| Production website | www.universalpictures.co.uk |
| IMDb | www.imdb.com/title/tt30988739 |
Music composed by Bafta and multiple Ivor Novello Award winner David Holmes.
“Ever since their first collaboration on Out Of Sight, and throughout their Oceans-trilogy, Holmes and Soderberg create an energy and verve with their productions.
Black Bag is no outlier; percussive and inventive, and vibey throughout, this score is equal parts pulse-pounding and seductive. Playfully underscoring spy-tropes with kitchy 60’s intrigue instrumentation and modern electronic sensibilities, Holmes has crafted something truly unique.” Mutant
“Leave it to the maverick film-maker Steven Soderbergh. While everyone else tries to “out-Bond” the spy genre by making the stunts bigger (Mission: Impossible), the quips quippier (Red Notice), the plots twistier (Tenet) and the action more furious (The King’s Man), the director of Erin Brockovich and the Ocean’s Eleven franchise has taken another route entirely. With this slick espionage thriller he’s made a propulsive movie that features gadgets, guns and glamour, and the high-stakes threat of geopolitical meltdown, but also one that leans heavily into marital melodrama and specifically Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — the film’s primary inspiration. […] And, best of all, everything is wrapped up with a closing dinner party in which the world of Albee hands over to that of Agatha Christie. It is thrillingly satisfying.” The Times
