Age: 47
male
Emmy Award winning composer Bear McCreary was first launched into pop culture with his groundbreaking score to the hit series Battlestar Galactica, that was lauded by Variety as “the most innovative music on TV today.” It “fits the action so perfectly, it’s almost devastating: a sci-fi score like no other” (NPR). Io9.com ranked McCreary one of the Ten Best Science Fiction Composers of All Time, and recently WIRED Magazine declared him one of only five “Secret Weapons” of the television industry. McCreary was recently voted “Composers’ Choice Composer of the Year – Television” by his peers in ASCAP, the first award of its kind. Bear has conducted orchestral performances of his music throughout North America and Europe, appearing at Fimucité in Tenerife, and the International Film Music Festival in Úbeda, Spain. In July 2014, his music was performed by the L.A. Philharmonic and L.A. Master Choraleat the Hollywood Bowl, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Attending the prestigious Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, Bear completed degrees in composition and recording arts. However, his professional training came from film music legend Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mocking Bird). Bear was one of Bernstein’s select protégés, and learned the tools of the trade working with and orchestrating for the maestro. Bear spent his childhood immersed in film and television music; he is delighted now to contribute back to the genres that inspired him.
Deep within the volcanic mountains of the Pacific Rim, a team of scientists and explorers unearth signs of an impossible lifeform something ancient, winged, and slumbering beneath the magma. When the volcano erupts, the skies ignite in flame and the world meets Rodan, a colossal pterosaur born of fire and stone. Rodan’s awakening sends shockwaves through the planet, both literally and politically. Nations scramble to weaponize, study, or destroy him. But amid the chaos, Dr. Darius Kaelen, a geologist haunted by his father’s disappearance on the same mountain years ago, believes Rodan isn’t a random mutation — but the last guardian of an ancient ecosystem. As Rodan takes flight across continents, his mere presence triggers superstorms, fire cyclones, and seismic rifts. The world descends into panic — but hidden within Rodan’s path lies a pattern: he is not attacking at random. He is returning to something... or someone. When Mara and her team uncover a buried temple revealing that Rodan once protected humanity from something far worse, they must choose — continue humanity’s war against nature, or trust a creature that may be their only defense against a greater terror stirring beneath the earth.
