Age: 75
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James Newton Howard is an American film composer, orchestrator and music producer. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, and nine nominations for Academy Awards. His film scores include Pretty Woman (1990), The Prince of Tides (1991), The Fugitive (1993), Space Jam (1996), The Sixth Sense (1999), Dinosaur (2000), Unbreakable (2000), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), Signs (2002), Treasure Planet (2002), Peter Pan (2003), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Batman Begins (2005) and its sequel, The Dark Knight (2008) (both composed with Hans Zimmer), Blood Diamond (2006), Michael Clayton (2007), The Hunger Games series (2012–present), the Fantastic Beasts trilogy (2016–2022), and Raya and the Last Dragon (2021). He has collaborated extensively with directors M. Night Shyamalan and Francis Lawrence, having scored eight of Shyamalan's films and eight of Lawrence's films since I Am Legend (2007). He has also worked with other directors such as Peter Jackson, Edward Zwick, Michael Hoffman, P. J. Hogan, Paul Greengrass, Andrew Davis, Lawrence Kasdan, Joe Roth, Martin Campbell, Joe Johnston, Tony Gilroy, Taylor Hackford, Ivan Reitman, Joel Schumacher, and David Yates; conductor Pete Anthony; and violinists Bruce Dukov, and Eun-Mee Ahn.
The story would follow a rookie prison guard who begins his first day on the job in a high-security prison in the southern United States. During a tour of the facility before starting his shift, a violent riot led by the most dangerous inmates in the jail breaks out. The guard, who is trapped inside the prison, is forced to pose as an inmate in order to survive and avoid discovery by the dangerous riot leaders. Meanwhile, the riot continues and the hostage negotiation team works to reach an agreement with the rioting inmates. The undercover guard joins a group of inmates trying to escape from jail, and together they fight to survive while facing the violence and brutality of the riot. As the guard discovers more about prison life and the inmates' motivations, he realizes that all is not as it seems. Ultimately, the guard must make difficult decisions to protect the other prisoners and get out of jail alive.
