“Then I realized it’s a little unfair to ask any composer to ape these brilliant scores,” Esmail says. 2, Esmail provided his editors soundtracks from such like-minded films to patch in as the temporary score until a composer could replicate the mood.
“You take your pick with Hitchcock, Pakula, Three Days of the Condor, Marathon Man, the paranoid thrillers of the ’70s.”Īs shooting progressed on the half-hour mystery thriller starring Julia Roberts, which premieres Nov. “The kind that don’t get made any more,” he says. As Sam Esmail began creating the visual tone for his new Amazon series, Homecoming, he harked back to old-school thrillers.
