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Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Since scoring his first studio film in 1985, Elfman has garnered international recognition for composing over 100 feature film scores, as well as compositions for television, stage productions, and the concert hall. Elfman has frequently worked with directors Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, and Gus Van Sant, contributing music to nearly 20 Burton projects, including Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, and Alice in Wonderland, as well as scoring Raimi's Darkman, A Simple Plan, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Oz the Great and Powerful, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Van Sant's Academy Award-winning films Good Will Hunting and Milk. He wrote music for all of the Men in Black and Fifty Shades of Grey franchise films, the songs and score for Henry Selick's animated musical The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the themes for the popular television series Desperate Housewives and The Simpsons. Among his honours are four Oscar nominations, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy, seven Saturn Awards for Best Music, the 2002 Richard Kirk Award, the 2015 Disney Legend Award, the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award in 2017, and the Society of Composers & Lyricists Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danny Elfman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Danny Elfman

Composer
for Composer in Star Wars Tales: Finn Series (2023)
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Finn reveals to Rey, that he is force sensitive. Rey trains him with the help of the old Jedi´s force ghosts. Luke says to Rey that Finn is not ready to be trained, " He needs to find himself, and only there he could be trained to become Jedi." Finn goes to Coruscant to find out more about his past. There he finds Jannah that has been on a journey, with Lando Calrissian, to find her parents. They meet the Chancellor and Senator Val, that had kids that were kidnapped by the First Order. Finn is led to the planet of Bogano, where his memories are awakened... He meets Hela Syko, who helps him in his journey. Finn finds out that he was a padawan of Master Tobias Murguen, a Jedi master that built his own Jedi Temple. Finn finds out that Master Tobias was killed by a crime lord, Portis Maximus, a Sith Eternal. He finds his master´s lightsaber and keeps him. He tracks down Portis, to the planet Sriluur, where he confronts him. Portis reveals that he was the man behind all the kidnapped kids. Even with an augmentation of his lightsaber skills, Finn can´t stop Portis from killing Jannah. He is visited by his former Master force ghost, which helps him defeat Portis. Finn, with the help of Lando, takes Portis to Coruscant, where he is convicted to life in prison. Finn finds out that Rey has been missing after following a message through the force. Finn has to find her. (END OF THE SERIES) POST CREDIT SCENE: Taron Malicos finds Portis and gets him free.