Award winning composer Mark Isham (Crash) is teaming up with multi-Grammy award winning songwriter and executive producer Alicia Keys to score The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. Directed by George Tillman Jr., Inevitable tells the story of two inner-city youths left to fend for themselves, starring Jennifer Hudson, Jordin Sparks, and Jeffrey Wright. Mark Isham has previously worked with Tillman on Men of Honor.
Inevitable will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2013 at 9:45PM at Eccles Theatre in Park City, Utah. Additionally, Mark Isham will be a featured panelist on the BMI Roundable Discussion, Music and Film The Creative Process Produced on Wednesdsay, January 23, 2013 from 11:00AM to 1:00PM at the Sundance House. He will also speak on the Sundance Panel, Power of Story: Measure for Measure on Friday, January 25, 2013 from 3:00PM to 4:30PM at the Egyptian. Other Measure for Measure panelists include Academy Award-winning composer Jan Kaczmarek and five time Grammy award winning musician and composer Terence Blanchard.
This marks Mark Isham's first time attending Sundance for a film he scored. Isham currently is scoring ABC's hit series Once Upon A Time and the upcoming Warner Bros. Jackie Robinson biopic, 42.