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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
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for Composer in Marvel Studios' X-Men (2013, Phase 1)
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The Idea: what if marvel owned the X-Men from the start and got to use them in the mcu Changes: Logan in CA:TFA, No 2000's X-Men, X-Men apart of Civil War Technical Details/Dates: 2013 release, filmed in 2012 Misc. Details: Iceman is youngest X-Men, Gambit is the oldest who isn't Charles, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are Magento's kids and are conflicted Description: Havoc is being caused across New York and weird incidents are happening, meanwhile, a lonely mutant man with extraordinary powers and forgotten memories by the name of Logan is drinking alone at a bar when he's approached by a bald man with equally extraordinary powers named Charles Xavier, who invites him to join a team called the X-Men, a team of mutants lead by a man called Cyclops, who are fighting against the attacks, which are being done by a supervillain by the name of Magneto, who is trying to take over the world with the help of his brotherhood, so Logan begrudgingly accepts and it's up to the X-Men and their newest recruit, Wolverine, to stop him, becoming a tight knit team along the way, as Logan learns to not be such a loner, and even encounters someone from his mysterious past Post Credits Scene: Logan and Charles are talking, and Charles askes Logan about his past, Logan can't recall it, and Charles askes him if he would like to find out, setting up a solo film about Logan exploring his past/origin story
