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James Newton Howard is an American film composer, orchestrator and music producer. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, and nine nominations for Academy Awards. His film scores include Pretty Woman (1990), The Prince of Tides (1991), The Fugitive (1993), Space Jam (1996), The Sixth Sense (1999), Dinosaur (2000), Unbreakable (2000), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), Signs (2002), Treasure Planet (2002), Peter Pan (2003), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Batman Begins (2005) and its sequel, The Dark Knight (2008) (both composed with Hans Zimmer), Blood Diamond (2006), Michael Clayton (2007), The Hunger Games series (2012–present), the Fantastic Beasts trilogy (2016–2022), and Raya and the Last Dragon (2021). He has collaborated extensively with directors M. Night Shyamalan and Francis Lawrence, having scored eight of Shyamalan's films and eight of Lawrence's films since I Am Legend (2007). He has also worked with other directors such as Peter Jackson, Edward Zwick, Michael Hoffman, P. J. Hogan, Paul Greengrass, Andrew Davis, Lawrence Kasdan, Joe Roth, Martin Campbell, Joe Johnston, Tony Gilroy, Taylor Hackford, Ivan Reitman, Joel Schumacher, and David Yates; conductor Pete Anthony; and violinists Bruce Dukov, and Eun-Mee Ahn.
With the critical and commercial success of Joker, there's been rumors — as in, take it with a grain of salt — that it might be the first installment of a new standalone DC film series, a cinematic equivalent to the DC Black Label. Several months ago, I've had various ideas of what could be done with DC's library of popular and beloved characters to make for compelling films that could capture said characters' essence and nuance even without directly following any kind of source material. For this one, the basic idea is that this would be a political drama in the vein of journalism films such as Spotlight, The Post, and All the President's Men, but in regards to how Lois Lane would be portrayed, it would be heavily inspired by The Hudsucker Proxy, mainly Jennifer Jason Leigh's character in that film. This would be somewhat of an origins tale, detailing how and why Lane got interested in journalism and showcasing her progression into becoming the feisty and confident award-winning headline-hunter we all know and love from the comic books and other adaptations.
