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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.
A story in 2009, of 4 high school students who have never met discovered ancient books from a man of the '60s which somehow created a world beneath there's filled with the author's beasts and tales which will soon come on to this world and take over this brings the 4 teens together, Ethan Ardreen a geek trying to be perfect, Izzy Kensington-Reeds childhood friend of Ethan who is extremely shy and lonely and has a crush on him, Faith Thunder mysterious girl who is secretly a talented swordsman and Lucy September a rich, snobby girl who tries to not act like a spoiled brat and spends money on charity to save the world may be, more than once. Halfway through the story Ethan's brother (Tommy) finds out and starts to help, Tommy works at a comic book store and has a crush on a girl called Chloe Mao. In the last season, they have become mightier than before. The villain is Oliver Hartford the nephew of the author whose mother died so his uncle wrote a short novel about her as a hero, when he heard that the books are coming to the surface he believes his mother will be alive again.
