You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howard's interview with the and I'm here with David Wingo, the enemy nominated composer of Barry, who also scored the films like Midnight Special, Loving, Brigsby Bear,

and this year's The Report.

David, thank you so much for talking with me today.

Oh, thank you.

So the report tells the true story of Daniel Jones, who investigated the CIA's use of torture post-9-11.

How did you board this project?

How did this project come across your plate?

I'm like most, strangely, it does seem like most projects end up being, there being some kind of connection, like someone of an editor I've worked with before, if not the director himself.

But this was the rare one that was just kind of out of the blue.

And they were already through editing. It was

pretty late in the game. They were already through editing. And the editor, Gregor Bryant,

had attempted several pieces of mine in, and they just liked how it was working.

So they came to me and it was, I guess, like the middle of October last year.

And I immediately obviously had my interest.

Very piqued, not just by everything here, the subject matter,

by hearing who's behind it, Scott Z. Burns and Soderberg and the cast,

and then once I watched,

they sent me a,

uh,

sent me to cut.

And like I said,

it was pretty much the final cut.

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