Dangerous Liaisons
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LionsGate Records releases the Original Score from the STARZ Original Series Dangerous Liaisons with Music by Anne Nikitin.

LionsGate Records releases the Original Score from the STARZ Original Series Dangerous Liaisons with Music by Anne Nikitin.

Dangerous Liaisons is a bold reimagining of the iconic characters from Laclos’ classic 18th century novel and tells the origin story of how the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont meet as passionate young lovers in Paris on the eve of revolution. Driven to right the wrongs of their past, we follow the couple as they rise from the slums of Paris and scale the heights of the French aristocracy, seducing and manipulating both the nobility and each other to survive.

The cast includes Alice Englert, Nicholas Denton, Academy Award nominee Lesley Manville, Emmy nominee Carice van Houten, Michael McElhatton, BAFTA nominee Kosar Ali, Nathanael Saleh, Paloma Faith, Hakeem Kae Kazim, Hilton Pelser, Mia Threapleton, Colette Dalal Tchantcho, Lucy Cohu, Fisayo Akinade, Maria Friedman and Clare Higgins.

“Dangerous Liaisons” is created, written and executive produced by Harriet Warner. Executive Producers are Colin Callender, Tony Krantz, Bethan Jones, Scott Huff and Christopher Hampton. Barney Reisz is the series producer. Leonora Lonsdale and Olly Blackburn direct. The series is produced for Starz by Playground Entertainment and Flame Ventures in association with Lionsgate.

About Anne Nikitin

Anne Nikitin is an Ivor Novello and Emmy-nominated composer. She is known for her creative and versatile approach in amplifying suspense and emotion in award-winning documentaries, narrative dramas and drama-series. In 2022, Anne scored Lionsgate/Starz’s new series Dangerous Liaisons, both the Netflix nature docuseries Our Universe and the documentary feature The Mystery Of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, as well as the Emmy-nominated Hulu Original Series The Dropout starring Amanda Seyfried.

Scoring for feature films, Anne recently completed the music for I.S.S. – a thriller set in space, starring Ariana DeBose and directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite; and is currently scoring Mother’s Instinct – a dark thriller starring Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway, and directed by Benoit Delhomme. She has written the scores for Bart Layton’s critically acclaimed heist movie American Animals and the Bafta-winning film The Imposter. Other credits include Lost Girls, a Netflix movie starring Amy Ryan and Gabriel Byrne; as well as the family fantasy movie Four Kids And It based on Jacqueline Wilson's novel starring Sir Michael Caine and Russell Brand.

Her diverse body of work in television includes Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse for BBC/Amazon Prime; Season 1 and 2 of the Netflix young adult fantasy series Fate: The Winx Saga created by Brian Young (The Vampire Diaries); the AMC anthology series Soulmates created by William Bridges (Black Mirror, Stranger Things); the Sky Drama series Little Birds based on the erotic stories of Anaïs Nin, for which she won a Music+Sound Award; and Untouchable: The Rise And Fall Of Harvey Weinstein, which was nominated for two Emmys including Best Score. .

Anne enjoys writing in a variety of styles but has an affinity for dark, moody, atmospheric music, growing up on heavy doses of goth, indie rock, and 90s electronica, as well as classical avant-garde composers. From sweeping orchestral scores to dirty guitars, mesmeric synths and delicate piano refrains, she creates unique sound worlds spanning a wide range of genres.

Anne was born in Canada to Romanian and Polish parents and grew up in various countries around the world. She immersed herself in books, films, and contemporary music while studying Composition and English Literature at McGill University in Montreal, and was awarded a Socan prize for Young Composers of Canada. She completed her Master’s in Composition for Screen at the Royal College of Music in London where she studied with Dario Marianelli, Gabriel Yared, and assisted George Fenton. Her lucky break came in 2006, when she won the BBC New Talent, New TV Composers scheme and went on to compose scores for major UK and US broadcasters. She was named Classic FM 2018 “Composer to Watch” and a “composer who should be on your radar” by Film4.

Anne is a voting member of Bafta, The Ivors, and The Academy of Motion Pictures.

About the Series

“Dangerous Liaisons” is a bold prelude of Laclos’ classic 18th century novel focusing on the origin story of how his iconic characters, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, met as passionate young lovers in Paris on the eve of the revolution.
This modern take on a classic story takes audiences through wonder and terror, beauty and degradation, seduction and deception in pre-revolutionary Paris. Driven to right the wrongs of their past, the young couple’s survival depends on their skills of seduction and manipulation of not only the French nobility but of each other.
Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton portray the notorious lovers: Camille who is taken in by the current Marquise de Merteuil (played by Lesley Manville) navigates her own path in a world of men, using the power of secrets to take back control, and Valmont who will stop at nothing to regain his title that was recently taken from him. Their on-again off-again love story is the heart of the series. It’s not love… it’s war.

The series is produced for STARZ by Playground and Flame Ventures in association with Lionsgate Television. It was created and written by Harriet Warner, who also serves as showrunner and executive producer.
In addition to Warner, Colin Callender (Playground), Tony Krantz (Flame Ventures), Scott Huff, Bethan Jones, and Christopher Hampton also serve as executive producers.
Barney Reisz serves as producer. In addition to Englert, Denton, and Manville, the series stars Kosar Ali as Victoire, Carice van Houten as Jacqueline de Montrachet, Hilton Pelser as Gabriel Carrè, Fisayo Akinade as Chevalier de Saint-Jacques, Michael McElhatton as Jean de Merteuil, Nathanael Saleh as Azolan, Colette Dalal Tchantcho as Ondine de Valmont, Hakeem Kae-Kazim as Majordome, and Tom Wlaschiha as Henri de Montrachet.

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More info at: Composer Anne Nikitin Official Site