Age: 47
male
Emmy Award winning composer Bear McCreary was first launched into pop culture with his groundbreaking score to the hit series Battlestar Galactica, that was lauded by Variety as “the most innovative music on TV today.” It “fits the action so perfectly, it’s almost devastating: a sci-fi score like no other” (NPR). Io9.com ranked McCreary one of the Ten Best Science Fiction Composers of All Time, and recently WIRED Magazine declared him one of only five “Secret Weapons” of the television industry. McCreary was recently voted “Composers’ Choice Composer of the Year – Television” by his peers in ASCAP, the first award of its kind. Bear has conducted orchestral performances of his music throughout North America and Europe, appearing at Fimucité in Tenerife, and the International Film Music Festival in Úbeda, Spain. In July 2014, his music was performed by the L.A. Philharmonic and L.A. Master Choraleat the Hollywood Bowl, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Attending the prestigious Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, Bear completed degrees in composition and recording arts. However, his professional training came from film music legend Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mocking Bird). Bear was one of Bernstein’s select protégés, and learned the tools of the trade working with and orchestrating for the maestro. Bear spent his childhood immersed in film and television music; he is delighted now to contribute back to the genres that inspired him.
Bear McCreary
Composer
for Composer in Wonder Woman: Warbringer (2015)
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In the final year of World War II, Allied pilot Steve Trevor crashes near Themyscira, pursued by a Nazi squad seeking lost ancient relics. Moved by visions and the threat of growing darkness, Diana defies her mother and leaves the island, escorting Steve back to a world consumed by war. There, she encounters the Justice Society of America—Alan Scott, Jay Garrick, Hawkman, Doctor Fate, Wildcat, and Doctor Mid-Nite—an elite, secret team of metahumans fighting hidden threats behind enemy lines. As the Allies close in on Berlin, the JSA uncovers signs of Olympian interference. Ancient war artifacts have empowered a Nazi cult determined to prolong the war through supernatural means. Behind it all, an unseen hand—Ares—whispers conflict into every corner of the battlefield. Tensions build as Diana’s divine power unsettles the mortal heroes, especially Hawkman, who warns of gods choosing sides in human affairs. Diana leads the JSA in a final assault on a Nazi-occupied temple. There, she confronts the truth of her lineage and the source of the war’s unnatural fury. By embracing her compassion over conquest, she severs Ares’ influence without striking him down—choosing to inspire rather than rule. Mid credits: In a buried chamber, Diana finds alien glyphs and a name scorched into the stone: “Darkseid.” Post credits: Doctor Fate, alone in a collapsing sanctum, witnesses flashes of worlds at war and whispers, “The age of gods has only just begun.”
