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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 Tim Burton AND Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever (1995)
Suggested by kingoffantasy516
As much as I like Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever, I still wonder what would the film had been like if Tim Burton had returned to direct. In this universe, Burton is given another chance to direct. However, Warner Bros. would still want a way to avoid a repeat of the backlash over Batman Return's dark themes. So, they hire Schumacher to Co-Direct the film with Burton. That way we can keep what worked with the actual Batman Forever we got WHILE also bringing back the Burton Darkness that was missing from the film (and another reason that you'll see later in another idea). This would be inspired by Franscription's Batman Forever, the Batman Forever we actually got, early ideas for Batman Forever Joel Schumacher had, and my own ideas for the movie.
