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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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Five months after Gwen Stacy’s brutal death at the hands of Venom and Peter Killing the Symbiote (Not Eddie), Peter Parker lives a hollow existence. Spider-Man still swings through New York, but the joy and hope that once defined him are gone — replaced by grief, guilt, and isolation. Haunted by Gwen’s final moments, Peter questions his purpose as both hero and man. But when a series of surreal, reality-bending crimes erupt across the city, he’s forced back into the fight. Behind the chaos stands Quentin Beck, a disgraced illusionist and effects artist turned terrorist known as Mysterio, who blames Spider-Man for the failures that destroyed his career. Using advanced holographic tech and hallucinogenic gas, Mysterio doesn’t just want revenge — he wants to shatter Spider-Man’s mind and make the world believe he’s gone insane. As illusions blend with reality, Peter begins to lose his grip on what’s real, reliving his worst fears and regrets in twisted, nightmarish visions. Every hallucination cuts deeper — Gwen’s voice, his uncle’s disappointment, the faces of everyone he’s failed. Mysterio’s manipulations turn New York against him, painting Spider-Man as a murderer and fugitive. In this R-rated descent into psychological horror, Peter must confront not only Mysterio, but his own fractured psyche. To stop the villain and reclaim his humanity, Spider-Man must face the truth he’s buried: to honor Gwen’s memory, he has to forgive himself — before Mysterio’s illusions consume him completely.
