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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.
Set in a near-future waterfront city like Chicago or Seattle - in a conformist nanny/police-state, Faith Connors is an illegal courier or "runner", whose job it is to hand-deliver messages and data across the rooftops and skyways to avoid ubiquitous government monitoring of movement and communications. After making a few deliveries, private security firm Pirandello Kruger and Silvine contracts a secret mole to kill a family friend. The story follows Faith in her struggle to free her unjustly-imprisoned sister, accused of murdering a friend of their family - Mayoral Candidate Robert Pope. While running clients' illegal messages, she gets caught up in events which lead to her being endlessly pursued by the totalitarian government herself. Mercury, Faith's trainer/mentor, acts as her guide to outwit, outrun, and overcome the sinister agents out to eliminate her.
