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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.

James Newton Howard

Composer
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In between the rise of The Galactic Empire and the outbreak of The Galactic Civil War, Darth Vader was dispatched to Kashyyyk to defeat a Wookie uprising led by a Jedi survivor of Order 66 named Kento Marek, but once he struck down the Jedi Knight and his wife, Mallie Marek, Vader found out they had a son named Galen and takes the boy under his wing, giving him the codename "Starkiller". Over the timeline of 18 BBY - 2 BBY, Vader trains Starkiller to one day overthrow his Master, Darth Sidious, and rule the galaxy the way he sees fit. However, Starkiller is then betrayed by his Master and forced to find his own path as a Jedi in the future Rebel Alliance...