“The Comey Rule,” based on former FBI Director James Comey‘s book “A High Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership,” was the first dramatization of the Trump presidency, but the Showtime miniseries from Billy Ray was not meant to take sides — and the music had to reflect that.
“The most important thing about story, as I was talking to Billy, was really it was a story about a man — Comey — who has an idealistic love of the institution. He has a sort of romantic idea about the high and lofty ideals to which that institution should aspire,” composer Henry Jackman tells Gold Derby at our Meet the Experts: TV Composers panel (watch above). “And just when he gets the post of his life, it happens to coincide with political events that are so difficult and impossible to manage that he ends up in absolutely extraordinary and impossible situations. So it’s...
“The most important thing about story, as I was talking to Billy, was really it was a story about a man — Comey — who has an idealistic love of the institution. He has a sort of romantic idea about the high and lofty ideals to which that institution should aspire,” composer Henry Jackman tells Gold Derby at our Meet the Experts: TV Composers panel (watch above). “And just when he gets the post of his life, it happens to coincide with political events that are so difficult and impossible to manage that he ends up in absolutely extraordinary and impossible situations. So it’s...
- 6/8/2021
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
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