Jonny Greenwood to score Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin

Jonny Greenwood is writing the score for We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay's film of the Lionel Shriver novel, The Hollywood Reporter says from the Berlin film festival. The book follows a New York mother raising a son she never wanted, who in the end goes on a killing spree at his high school with a crossbow.

Tilda Swinton stars, with John C. Reilly and Ezra Miller also in the cast. Ramsay directed Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar; this film was developed by BBC Films and is now in post-production.

It comes after Greenwood's music for Tran Anh Hung's Norwegian Wood, and for Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, which won him the Ivor Novello award for best original film score.