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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.
When a famed socialite daughter of a wealthy family is abducted, her family and the media are scrambling to locate her. While in captivity, she realizes that many other girls are missing as the same time, but the media and public never called for their rescue- and she has to rescue them and herself while seeking justice for the other victims and finding the dark truth. This film is a satire of rescue-the-girl action thrillers such as Taken, Man on Fire, The Call, or any action thriller with Liam Neeson or Nicolas Cage. Much like in real-life high-profile abduction cases, these movies often fall with the trope of missing white woman syndrome- the vast majority of these movies have victims that are white, blonde, wealthy, and innocent- while victims who are people of color and/or poor are often left in the shadows. This film will instead be a psychological neo-noir thriller focusing on the victim's point of view rather than that of the rescuer, in addition to being filmed in black-and-white a la Sin City.
