Nick Cave and Warren Ellis confirmed to score ‘The Death of Bunny Munro’ adaptation

Posted On August 5, 2025August 5, 2025

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have been confirmed to score the upcoming television adaptation of The Death of Bunny Munro.

The Death of Bunny Munro is an upcoming six-part series based on Cave’s second novel, published in 2009, which is set to arrive on Sky and stars former Doctor Who star Matt Smith in the titular role.

The Bad Seeds duo recorded the score at  Soundtree Music in Shoreditch, East London, and their frequent collaborator, Luis Almau, engineered it.

While no release date has been given for the upcoming series, Sky has confirmed details of a special preview event at the Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival, held at the Royal Festival Hall on October 30th, 2025. The evening will feature a screening of the first two episodes, followed by an exclusive on-stage conversation with Cave and Smith about their long journey of bringing The Death of Bunny Munro to life.

The synopsis for the series reads: “Following his wife Libby’s death by suicide, sex addicted door-to-door beauty salesman and self-professed lothario Bunny Munro (Matt Smith), finds himself saddled with his young son, Bunny Junior, and only a loose concept of parenting. As the two struggle to contain their grief in wildly different ways, Bunny takes Junior on the road for an increasingly out-of-control door-to-door sales tour around Brighton and the suburban towns of the Sussex Coast.”

It continues: “Bunny bounces from one sales pitch to the next, trying to seduce any woman he meets, while Junior kills time talking to the ghost of his mother and grappling with the dawning realisation that his dad isn’t just fallible, he’s a fucking mess. As Bunny starts to unravel, he realises he must do something to rescue his son from his own outdated notions of what it is to be a man; to save him from becoming another Bunny Munro.”

The Death of Bunny Munro was originally planned for an adaptation in 2010, with Ray Winstone set to play the lead role; however, it never materialised.

The upcoming series, which will arrive later this year, has been written by Somewhere Boy’s Pete Jackson, and Industry’s Isabella Eklöf has handled directorial duties.

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