The Lumineers’ Jeremiah Fraites Composing Movie Score For Stephen King’s ‘The Long Walk’ Adaptation

Jeremiah Fraites, co-founder and songwriter of Grammy-nominated band the Lumineers, has composed the score for The Long Walk, a film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of the same name. The movie is directed by Francis Lawrence, and is set for theatrical release on September 12. “Francis and I had a really great initial phone call that helped inform what instrumentation we thought would work,” Fraites says of the project, which marks his first time scoring a feature film. “Strings and piano felt right in servicing the expected horror you’d find in Stephen King canon.” Lawrence said that he first met Fraites when the Lumineers did a song for the Catching Fire soundtrack and the pair have remained friends ever since, with the director sharing that, “He’d send me vinyl versions of his solo albums and it was exactly that work that made me think he’d be perfect for ‘The Long Walk.’” (Variety)