Doing Tim’s film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.
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I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.
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Birth: | 29th May, 1953 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Actor, Composer, Lyricist, Musician, Record Producer, Singer |
Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman was born in Los Angeles, California. He is an American composer, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor and musician. He is known as the lead singer and songwriter for the rock band Oingo Boingo, from 1976 to 1995 and later for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman film theme. Elfman re-entered the film industry in 1976, initially as an actor. He has since been nominated for four Academy Awards and won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for Tim Burton's Batman and an Emmy Award for his Desperate Housewives theme.
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