EXCLUSIVE: Listen to A Cue From Nine Perfect Strangers: Season 2 By Marco Beltrami and Miles Hankins!

May 22, 2025

Soundtracks, Scores and More Staff

Ahead of the release of Nine Perfect Strangers : Season 2—Original Series Soundtrack, we have the distinct pleasure of premiering “Prepare For Arrival” from the album.  The soundtrack will be released digitally on Friday, May 23, featuring music by two-time Oscar nominated composer Marco Beltrami and Miles Hankins.  The piano, synth and strings redolent score is immediately lush and elegant, yet becoming gradually more ominous.  The Hulu Original Limited Series created by David E. Kelley and starring Nicole Kidman is streaming now.  Have a listen below and get more soundtrack details!

Notes Beltrami: “The goal of the score for season 2 was to keep a connection with some thematic elements from season 1, but yet also come up with new ideas for the new locale and characters.  Jon wanted to invoke some of the classical roots of Europe, but in a light-hearted, contemporary way that didn’t get melodramatic.  The “prepare for arrival” and “season recap” tracks on the album is the initial idea that came to mind, and were the first pieces we presented to him. As always, Miles and I and Buck Sanders had a great time collaborating on this unique and wonderful show; full of inspiration from the amazing Jonathan Levine!”

Adds Hankins: “We had a lot of fun with season 2, getting to dive further into the mystery of Masha’s backstory, and accompanying a terrific new ensemble with their own set of quirks, hidden traumas and ticking clocks.  We introduced a vocal element to the score this season, and created a new set of themes and textures which descend into a kind of musical madness as we follow these intersecting journeys down the rabbit hole.  We hope the audience will enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed creating!”

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Track List

01. Prepare For Arrival
02. Searching For Salvation – Marco Beltrami, Miles Hankins feat Grace Davidson
03. Victoria Arrives
04. The Mind Within
05. Descent
06. Cold Plunge
07. Tina And Wolfie Arrive
08. David And Masha
09. Where’s Agnes?
10. Masha Meets the Bear
11. She Can’t Wake Up
12. Masha And David Trip
13. Peter Has A Map!
14. Masha Dreams Of Tatiana
15. Masha Leaves
16. Sacrifice / Deliverance
17. Nine Perfect Interludes
18. Drinks At The Bar
19. Trippin’ Ballshroom
20. Fireworks
21. Hell In A Handbasket
22. She Ruined Your Life
23. Martin Having A Bad Trip
24. Snowblind
25. In Recovery
26. Never Change
27. David Not So Sharp
28. Season 2 Recap
29. Benediction – Marco Beltrami, Miles Hankins feat Grace Davidson

ABOUT MARCO BELTRAMI

MARCO BELTRAMI is a two-time Oscar nominated composer. He has collaborated with many iconic film directors including Kathryn Bigelow, James Mangold, Bong Joon-ho, Angelina Jolie, Robert Rodriguez, Luc Besson, Guillermo Del Toro, Wes Craven, Alex Proyas, Jonathan Mostow, Roland Joffé, Jodie Foster, David E. Kelley and Tommy Lee Jones.

The composer established an early reputation as a genre innovator with his non-traditional horror scores for the Scream franchise. Beltrami’s musical palette has since expanded to virtually all film genres. Beltrami has received accolades for his music including two Academy Award nominations for Best Score: 3:10 to Yuma, starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, and for Best Picture winner The Hurt Locker, starring Jeremy Renner, co-scored with frequent collaborator Buck Sanders. In 2011 Beltrami won a Golden Satellite Award (Best Film Score of the Year) for Soul Surfer. Beltrami scored the Marvel film Logan, directed by James Mangold, and Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut, First They Killed My Father. He also wrote the theme for the hit video game Fortnite. Beltrami scored the critically acclaimed box-office hit A Quiet Place, which was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Score and shortlisted for Best Score for the Oscars. Beltrami won an Emmy for National Geographic’s 2019 Oscar winning documentary Free Solo, (with co-composer Brandon Roberts) for Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary, Series or Special.

He has lent his voice to such unique hit films as Live Free or Die Hard, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and I, Robot. His other scores include The Homesman directed by Tommy Lee Jones, the zombie comedy Warm Bodies directed by Jonathan Levine, the final installment of the Bruce Willis action series A Good Day To Die Hard, Snowpiercer starring Chris Evans and directed by Bong Joon-ho, the Brad Pitt action thriller World War Z, James Mangold’s The Wolverine, and The Night Before also directed by Jonathan Levine, starring Seth Rogan and Joseph Gordon Levitt.

Other projects include Guillermo Del Toro’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Jordan Peele’s The Twilight Zone for CBS All Access, the Lionsgate comedy Long Shot starring Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen, the Zac Efron-starrer Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Vile, and Evil and the Paramount Pictures adventure comedy Love and Monsters. Beltrami’s recent work includes Paramount Pictures’ horror sequel A Quiet Place Part II, Netflix’s horror film trilogy Fear Street (Parts 1-3), the Lionsgate sci-fi feature Chaos Walking starring Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley, , the Sony Pictures action horror sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and the Hulu Mini-series Nine Perfect Strangers, which won the ASCAP Award for Top Television Series 0f 2022. Beltrami co-scored James Mangold’s Ford v. Ferrari (Twentieth Century Studios) with Buck Sanders, for which they were shortlisted for Best Score for the 2020 Oscars, with the film going on to receive four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. In addition to his success on Ford v. Ferrari, Marco composed the Universal feature, Renfield, starring Nicholas Hoult and John Woo’s upcoming action feature Silent Night.

Upon completing his undergraduate studies at Brown University, Beltrami entered the Yale School of Music on a scholarship. His pursuit of music composition then led him to Venice, Italy for a period of study with the Italian master Luigi Nono, and then to Los Angeles for a fellowship with Academy Award-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith.

ABOUT MILES HANKINS

Combining traditional and experimental techniques, Miles Hankins creates music that exists in the space between sound and the subconscious. With a lifelong passion for storytelling, he has composed music for some of Hollywood’s most notable films and television series, lending a distinctive and versatile voice to the cinematic landscape. 

He recently completed work on the Peacock series “Apples Never Fall” starring Annette Bening and Sam Neill, and the highly anticipated Hulu drama “Nine Perfect Strangers,” starring Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy, working with frequent musical collaborator Marco Beltrami. 

Other scores include the Lionsgate feature “Long Shot” starring Charlize Theron, the 20th Century Studios nail-biter “No Exit,” the Netflix animated series “LEGO Elves,” and the Columbia Pictures comedy “The Night Before,” starring Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Anthony Mackie. 

In the documentary space, Miles’s score for the critically acclaimed HBO series “Being Serena” received an Emmy nomination, and his score for Hulu’s “Thank You Good Night: The Bon Jovi Story” leant a dramatic orchestral counterpoint to the iconic hits of the band. 

Miles has contributed music to many additional blockbuster film scores, including Universal’s horror/comedy/action extravaganza “Renfield,” the Columbia/Marvel sequel “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” the hit Paramount horror franchise “A Quiet Place Part 1 and 2,” Lionsgate’s dystopian action thriller “Chaos Walking,” and Twentieth Century Fox’s summer tentpoles “Fantastic Four” and “Hitman: Agent 47.”

Nine new strangers connected in ways they could never imagine are invited by mysterious guru Masha Dmitrichenko (Kidman) to join a transformational wellness retreat in the Austrian Alps. Over the course of a week, she takes them to the brink. Will they make it? Will she? Masha is willing to try anything in the interest of healing everyone involved, including herself.