[40], On November 24, 2020, Howard's drama film Hillbilly Elegy was released on Netflix. James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games, King Kong, Maleficent, The Sixth Sense, Signs) has revealed in a recent interview in the latest episode of Score: The Podcast that he is attached to compose music for Lucasfilm's upcoming Disney+ original series Willow.The show is developed by Jonathan Kasdan (Solo: A Star Wars Story, In the Land of Women) & Wendy Mericle (Arrow) and stars Warwick Davis . When Howard and Zimmer returned for The Dark Knight, however, they took a different approach to tackling the score: The Dark Knight was a little bit different. Read Full Biography Overview Biography Discography Songs Credits Awards Related Song Highlights Highlights All Songs Title/Composer The Hanging Tree Suzanne Collins / Jeremiah Fraites / Wesley Schultz After college, he toured with Elton John as a keyboardist during the late 1970s and early 1980s (he was part of the band that played behind John in Central Park, New York, on Sept. 13, 1980). But he's approached each one with the same attitude. The Los Angeles Times described the work as having "an elegiac tone, along with thematic material from the beginning and closing titles of Red Sparrow" the score of which Howard was working on while first composing the concerto. 2003 ' 2004 ( ) ' ' . He collaborated with fellow composer Hans Zimmer on "Batman Begins" (2005) and "The Dark Knight" (2008), the latter of which earned Howard and Zimmer a Grammy Award for best film score. He went on to become the Bernard Herrmann to M. Night Shyamalan's Alfred Hitchcock scoring a string of metaphysical thrillers that included The Sixth Sense, The Village and Signs. The Truth About Ron Howard's Brother - NickiSwift.com [9][11], He has scored many of Shyamalan's suspense thrillers, The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Signs (2002), The Village (2004), Lady in the Water (2006), The Happening (2008), and The Last Airbender (2010), notably dropping the intense, yet subtle, opening credit music for The Sixth Sense from the corresponding soundtrack album. I did, predictably, maybe more the psychological stuff, but we went through it and it was great. 'Jungle Cruise' Composer James Newton Howard to Score Disney+ 'Willow