In a busy day for Collider, as well as claiming to know the ‘tentative’ arrival date of The Acolyte, they also claim that composer Michael Abels has been ‘tapped’ to compose the score for the series which if their dates are correct will arrive on Disney Plus in just 105 days time.
Collider can also confirm that Michael Abels, the composer best known for his work alongside Jordan Peele in his three feature films Get Out, Us and Nope, has also been tapped to produce the score for the upcoming series. Abels also composed the opera Omar, about the life of Omar ibn Said, based on his autobiography A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar ibn Said, written in 1831, mostly in Arabic. For his work on Omar, Abels—alongside composer and librettist Rhiannon Giddens—was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2023. Abels’ score for Us received countless end-of-year nominations at numerous awards ceremonies, while it was named “Score of the Decade” by The Wrap.
You’d think with the show long since completed and a launch date just over 3 months away the score would be in place – and as ever, until confirmed by Lucasfilm it’s very much unofficial – but a composer with Abels pedigree scoring a Star Wars project is an enticing thought, and we’ll be sure to discuss it on future episodes of Making Tracks.
