We’re still in WTF freefall from last month’s news that David Bowie would be among the musicians contributing to an upcoming SpongeBob Squarepants musical, but this update is bound to go down more smoothly: the Thin White Duke has announced plans to write an original song for new Canal+/Sky Atlantic TV show “The Last Panthers”. The six-part series stars Samantha Morton, John Hurt, and Tahar Rahim (A Prophet). No talking sponges will be included.
Bowie declines Coldplay collaboration invite
In a statement issued via Facebook, Bowie’s first piece of music for TV or film in 22 years (since 1993’s the Buddha of Suburbia) is described as “a meeting of minds between Bowie and the director of the series Johan Renck.”
Renck adds the following in a statement:
I was looking for one of the icons of my youth to write the music for the title sequence, but was presented with a God. His first response was precise, engaged and curious. The piece of music he laid before us embodied every aspect of our characters and the series itself – dark, brooding, beautiful and sentimental (in the best possible incarnation of this word). All along, the man inspired and intrigued me and as the process passed, I was overwhelmed with his generosity. I still can’t fathom what actually happened…
“The Last Panthers” will air later this year in the UK and France.
