KSAPublicity: Starring Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci, Monster Opens in New York and Los Angeles in December - BT has created a seductive and haunting original score for director Patty Jenkin’s debut feature film Monster. The score features performances by BT, Richard Fortus (guitar), Sterling Campbell and Bryan “Brain” Mantia (drums) and Ben Grossman on vielle à roué (aka Hurdy Gurdy), among others.

Starring Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci, Monster is a shockingly moving film that burrows deep beneath the tabloid-sized headline stories on Aileen Wuornos (Theron), the drifter prostitute executed last year in Florida for murdering seven men. The film hits theaters in New York and Los Angeles this December and opens nationwide in January 2004. The film is being distributed throughout the US by Newmarket Films.

The score was recorded and mixed over a period of four months at BT's The Buddha Room, as well as several live record rooms to track additional drums, guitar and stand-up bass. Different to BT's past scores such as The Fast and the Furious, which amalgamated his 80 piece orchestral compositions with electronic music, his score for Monster blends roots Americana-like organic, melodic sensibilities and non-traditional acoustic instrumentation to garner a complex, powerful and darkly beautiful sequence of music.

Throughout the recording and mixing process, BT worked daily with Jenkins and Theron to capture the story's yearning, passion, loss and tragedy. The entire score was conceived and recorded completely in 5.1 surround sound. An extended 5.1 mix of the score featuring over two hours of original music, will be released on DVD in early 2004 by DTS Entertainment, and will include special audio and video enhancements not available anywhere else.

Upon completing the score, BT said, “This was the most difficult film I’ve ever worked on because I cared so much about the subject matter. It was an incredible bonding experience between Patty, Charlize and me. I felt a tremendous responsibility to honor the story of Aileen Wuornos' greatly misunderstood life.”

Monster was written and directed by first-timer Patty Jenkins and produced by Charlize Theron, Brad Wyman, Donald Kushner, Mark Damon and Sammy Lee. The film is based upon the true story of Aileen Wuornos, who was convicted of the murders of seven men in Florida, and was executed in 2002 after 12 years on death row. Jenkins unearths a love story in the midst of the horrors and pathologies of two misfits: Wuornos, a prostitute deemed by the media as the first “female serial-killer” - a monster - and Selby Ward (Ricci), who was sent by her parents to live with an aunt in Florida in order to “cure her homosexuality.” The two meet and fall in love just as Wuornos was nearing suicidal despair. Selby becomes the first person in Wuornos’ tragic existence to value her as a human being.

Initially known as the pioneer of trance music, BT has arrived as one of the most cutting-edge artist/producers and film composers for a plethora of musical styles. His impressive career began training classically at the age of 4 and carried on to later education from the Berklee College of Music and Washington Conservatory, where he studied composition, counterpoint, harmony/theory, advanced orchestration and conduction, amongst a variety of other subjects.

BT has scored such blockbuster hits as The Fast and the Furious, Go and Driven, and is also recognized for producing notable artists such as Britney Spears, *NSYNC and Sonique, remixing the likes of Madonna, Lenny Kravitz, Korn, Seal and Sarah McLachlin, and his work with Sting and Peter Gabriel. Earlier this year, he released his fourth full-length release, Emotional Technology (Nettwerk America), featuring the hit single, “Simply Being Loved (Somnambulist)” ...a Top 40 radio smash.

Monster premiered Sunday night in Los Angeles as a close to the AFI Film Festival, and was one of the most sought after tickets at the festival. The film opens in New York on December 24th and Los Angeles/San Francisco on December 26th. Monster will open nationwide in January 2004. Look out for BT on tour with his live band in 2004. Check www.btmusic.com for updates.