The Runner, Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming psychological thriller from director Kevin Macdonald, arrives on Prime Video on September 2, 2026. The film stars Gal Gadot as Maia Marten, a high-powered London attorney whose son is abducted, forcing her to sprint across the city obeying the cryptic instructions of an anonymous caller. Damian Lewis, Alfred Enoch, and Rory Wilmot round out the cast, with David Kosse producing through his Rockwood Pictures banner.
From here on, this article focuses entirely on the film’s music — who’s scoring it, what his track record looks like, and what has (and hasn’t) been made official about the soundtrack ahead of release.
The Runner Soundtrack Details
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Film | The Runner |
| Director | Kevin Macdonald |
| Studio | Amazon MGM Studios / Rockwood Pictures |
| Platform | Prime Video |
| Release Date | September 2, 2026 |
| Composer | Tom Hodge |
| Label | Not yet announced |
| Album Release Date | Not yet announced |
| Total Tracks | Pending — no official tracklist released |
| Runtime (Film) | 84 minutes (1h 24m), confirmed by Rotten Tomatoes and critic reviews following release |
The Runner Soundtrack Overview
The film released on schedule via Prime Video on September 2, 2026, but no soundtrack album, label, or release date has been announced for The Runner as of this writing. Film Music Reporter’s coverage confirms Tom Hodge’s scoring assignment but does not list an album announcement, and no listing currently exists on FMDB, Apple Music, or Spotify. This will be updated once a release is confirmed.
Update: the film’s runtime, previously reported inconsistently ahead of release, is now confirmed. Rotten Tomatoes and multiple published critic reviews list The Runner at 84 minutes (1 hour 24 minutes), matching ComingSoon.net’s pre-release figure rather than the 130-minute runtime an international aggregator (Kinoafisha) had listed.
Who Composed The Runner Soundtrack?
Tom Hodge is scoring The Runner, marking his fourth collaboration with director Kevin Macdonald. Born in England in 1975 and raised partly in Melbourne, Australia, before returning to London, Hodge is a British composer and pianist whose scoring career began in advertising post-production before moving into film and television.
He’s an Ivor Novello Award winner, having taken Best Original Film Score in 2026 for Aoife Kelleher’s documentary Testimony, about the campaign for justice for survivors of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes. He was previously nominated for an Ivor Novello in 2019 for the BBC/PBS docu-series Rise of the Nazis.
Hodge’s working relationship with Kevin Macdonald dates back to the 2021 legal drama The Mauritanian, starring Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster, and Benedict Cumberbatch. He went on to score Macdonald’s fashion documentary High & Low: John Galliano (2023–2024) and the Vitali Klitschko profile Klitschko: More Than a Fight (2024), as well as Macdonald’s Last Song From Kabul. The Runner is his first narrative feature score for the director since The Mauritanian.
Beyond the Macdonald collaborations, Hodge’s other notable credits include the BBC/AMC crime drama MCMafia (co-scored with frequent collaborator Franz Kirmann), James Watkins’ The Ipcress File, the Christian Schwochow feature Je Suis Karl (co-scored with electronic artist Floex), additional music for Netflix’s Extraction 2, Ed Lovelace’s documentary Name Me Lawand, and Amir Bar-Lev’s The Last First: Winter K2, which opened the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.
The Runner Official Tracklist
Pending. No official tracklist has been released. Film Music Reporter, FMDB, Apple Music, and Spotify were all checked as of this writing, and none currently list a soundtrack release for the film. This section will be updated with verified track titles and durations once an album is officially announced.
Score Highlights
No official tracklist or preview cues have been released, so individual cues still can’t be named. Now that the film has premiered, early reviews offer the first descriptions of the score in action: Variety’s review characterized Hodge’s music as having a “percussive thrust” that “sounds mostly driven by bongoes,” a texture consistent with the film’s real-time chase premise. That’s a critic’s characterization rather than a confirmed cue-by-cue breakdown, and this section will be updated with verified track information if an official score album is released.
The Runner Licensed Songs / Needle Drops
Pending. Because the film has not yet premiered, needle-drop databases such as Tunefind, SeekerTune, and WhatSong have no episode- or scene-level entries for it yet. No press materials reviewed for this article mention licensed songs alongside Hodge’s original score. This section will be updated once the film is available to stream and scene-level sourcing is possible.
Tom Hodge Composer Filmography
| Year | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | MCMafia | TV series (BBC/AMC) |
| 2019 | Rise of the Nazis | Docu-series (BBC/PBS) |
| 2021 | The Mauritanian | Feature film |
| 2021 | Je Suis Karl | Feature film |
| 2022 | The Ipcress File | TV series |
| 2023 | Extraction 2 | Feature film (additional music) |
| 2023–2024 | High & Low: John Galliano | Documentary |
| 2024 | Klitschko: More Than a Fight | Documentary |
| 2026 | The Last First: Winter K2 | Documentary |
| 2026 | Testimony | Documentary (Ivor Novello win) |
| 2026 | The Runner | Feature film |
Name Me Lawand and Last Song From Kabul are also credited to Hodge but could not be independently dated for this article; they’re omitted from the year column pending further verification.
Where to Listen to The Runner Soundtrack?
No streaming links for the score currently exist, since no album has been released or announced. Once a soundtrack is confirmed, it would typically appear on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music alongside the film’s Prime Video premiere — this section will be updated with direct links at that point.
FAQs
Who composed the music for The Runner (2026)?
Tom Hodge, a British composer and Ivor Novello Award winner, composed the score.
When does The Runner premiere?
The film premiered globally on Prime Video on September 2, 2026, as scheduled.
Has The Runner soundtrack album been released?
Not as of this writing, even though the film itself released on schedule on September 2, 2026. No label, tracklist, or release date for a score album has been announced.
How many tracks are on The Runner soundtrack?
Unknown — pending an official album announcement.
Is this Tom Hodge’s first film with director Kevin Macdonald?
No. He previously scored The Mauritanian, High & Low: John Galliano, Klitschko: More Than a Fight, and Last Song From Kabul for Macdonald.
Are there licensed songs in The Runner?
None have been confirmed. The film has not yet premiered, so scene-level music databases have no data yet.
What is The Runner’s runtime?
84 minutes (1 hour 24 minutes), now confirmed by Rotten Tomatoes and multiple critic reviews published after the film’s release — resolving the earlier conflict with a 130-minute figure from an international listings aggregator.