After the great success of the black comedy "The Death Of Stalin", director Armando Iannuccis is once again collaborating with British film music composer Christopher Willis for Iannuccis' new film "The Personal History Of David Copperfield". Based on the classic novel by Charles Dickens, "The Personal History Of David Copperfield" brings one of the author's most popular characters to life. From birth to childhood, from adolescence to adulthood, the kind-hearted David Copperfield (Dev Patel) is surrounded by kindness, malice, poverty and wealth when he meets a number of remarkable personalities in Victorian England. As David sets out as a writer in search of family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive of all. With its pointed humour and colour-blind casting, the film is no average Dickens adaptation: the cobwebs have been dusted off the big book, and its brilliance and humanity have been given a new immediacy. At the same time, the soundtrack of the film is not a contemporary piece, but blatantly contemporary and neo-classical. "The film is very bright and luminous and full of generosity and joy," said Willis, "and the score is the same - not separate. There's a lot of energy, a lot of drive and a lot of optimism." Christopher Willis' contemporary neo-classical aesthetic, imbued with echoes of the great British symphonic tradition and performed by the RPS Award winning Aurora Orchestra 2019, has already received rave reviews for the score. Similar to "The Death Of Stalin", music and film harmonize perfectly with each other. Christopher Willis has already written award-winning scores/soundtracks for HBO's Veep and Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Shorts series and the Disney series "The Lion Guard", among others. He is also responsible for the score of the Oscar-winning Disney short film "Feast" and has worked on scores such as "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, X-Men First Class, Shrek Forever After, Winnie the Pooh and of course "The Death of Stalin".
