Christopher Lennertz to Score Tim Story’s ‘Tom & Jerry’
Christopher Lennertz (Horrible Bosses, Sausage Party, Supernatural, Baywatch) has been tapped to score the upcoming live-action/animated hybrid feature Tom & Jerry. The film is directed by Tim Story (Fantastic Four, Barbershop) and stars Chloe Grace Moretz, Michael Pena, Colin Jost, Ken Jeong, Rob Delaney, Jordan Bolger and Pallavi Sharda. The movie based on the cartoon characters created by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera follows a scrappy hustler who enlists Tom to help her evict Jerry from a fancy New York hotel before a high class wedding. Chris DeFaria (Cats & Dogs) is producing the Warner Animation Group production. Lennertz has previously collaborated with Story on such movies as Ride Along, Ride Along 2, Think Like a Man, Think Like a Man Too and last year’s Shaft. Tom & Jerry is currently scheduled to be released in theaters nationwide on March 5, 2021 by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Lennertz also continues to score Amazon’s The Boys, which will return for its second season on September 4, 2020 and Netflix’s Lost in Space, which has been renewed for a third and final season, which is expected to premiere in 2021.
Poor Chloe Grace Moretz...a decade ago she was a promising child actor working with Martin Scorsese. Now she's mugging at a tennis ball on a stick representing the eyeline of crude, CGI impersonators of Tom & Jerry.
Shades of The Witches in that it looks markedly less terrible than the director’s last movie, but it still doesn’t seem like a movie I’d rush out to see.
Still, it sounds like a neat scoring opportunity for Lennertz to go full Scott Bradley.
1- Tom and Jerry 2- Park Chase 3- Kayla Quits 4- Tom and Jerry Arrive 5- Jerry's Theme - Meeting Linda 6- Tom in Disguise 7- Kayla's Tour 8- Preeta & Ben 9- Rodentia Is Toast 10- Cheese Trap 11- Tightrope 12- I Know You 13- Could He Wear a Hat 14- Meet My Enforcer 15- Jerry's Spa 16- Spike Drags Terrence 17- Better Cheese Trap 18- Rooftop Chat 19- Petnado 20- Terrence Fired 21- Terrence Watches 22- Bridal Chat - Drone 23- Locked Up 24- Interrogation 25- Wedding Disaster 26- The Wedding's Off 27- New Plan 28- Married in the Park 29- Cat Dog Mouse Fight 30- End Credits
