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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
Composer
for Composer in Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (Filoni Cut)
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When it's discovered that the evil Darth Plagueis The Wise did not die at the hands of Palpatine, the rebels must race against the clock to find out his whereabouts. Finn and Poe lead the Resistance to put a stop to the First Order's plans to form a new Empire, but Rey is met by Kylo, who destroys the wayfinder and duels her. In a dying act, Leia calls to Kylo through the Force, distracting him as Rey impales him. Sensing Leia's death, Rey is overcome by guilt; Kylo Ren died that day Rey took his TIE fighter to exile herself on Ahch-To. Ghost Luke reveals why she has chosen cause she is Son of Luke Skywalker. but Plagueis drains Rey's power to rejuvenate himself. He incapacitates and tries attacks the Resistance fleet with Force lightning but Poe sacifice himself to save the Resistance after keeping R2 to the ship. Weakened, Rey hears the voices of Luke and Anakin, who lend her their strength. Plagueis attacks her with lightning, but Rey deflects it using Luke and Leia's lightsabers, obliterating Plagueis Alongside Luke and Anakin the evolution of Skywalker destroying Darth Plagueis before Rey Skywalker died that day. The Resistance defeats the remaining Sith forces, while people across the galaxy rise against the First Order. The Resistance returns to their base to celebrate but realize that Rey died from Ghost Rey Skywalker she give BB8 her Wristcuff, movie ends with Finn trying to use the force to grab a Skywalker Lightsaber
