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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 the year 2030, this R-Rated Spider-Man film takes place in an alternate Raimiverse where the age of heroes has faded into myth. Peter Parker, scarred by decades of loss and haunted by Mary Jane’s death from cancer two years prior, lives in quiet isolation—his body broken, his spirit hollow. But when a rip in reality opens above New York, Peter is forced back into the web. From it emerges Parallel—Luke Bryan, a being from a dying universe who seeks to collapse all realities into one perfect existence, no matter how many worlds must burn to make it happen. As fragments of dimensions collide, ghosts of the past return in twisted forms, forcing Peter to confront the cost of his own heroism. When the remnants of the Avengers—older, fractured, and long disbanded—are drawn back together to stop Parallel’s multiversal annihilation, Peter becomes their emotional core, the last man still willing to believe in redemption. The battle rages across collapsing worlds, from the crumbling towers of New York to the void between universes, as Spider-Man faces not only Parallel but the reflection of every mistake he’s ever made. In the end, Peter must make the ultimate sacrifice—choosing between restoring the Multiverse or saving the last remnants of the life he’s lost—proving that even in a broken world, the meaning of power and responsibility never dies.
