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Music Director
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Edit pageSimon Franglen
Biography
Simon Franglen is an English composer of classical and film music. He is also a record producer and former musician. His credits include four of the list of top-grossing films and six of the list of best-selling albums of all time.
His film work includes several well-known movies, including Avatar, for which he received Golden Globe and Grammy nominations for the theme song, and for being the producer of "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic, for which he won a Record of The Year Grammy Award.
Other film credits range from David Fincher's Seven, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Magnificent Seven, to arranging music for the James Bond films Skyfall and Spectre.
In late 2019, he composed the score to Xiaolong Zheng's Turandot, The Three Bracelets, a large-budget Chinese historical action fantasy for release in 2021.
In late 2020, he composed the score for the documentary film about the saving of the Timbuktu Manuscripts from Jihadists – The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu (based on the novel The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu), directed by Otto Bell.
In early 2021, he will be composing the score for the mythological epic, Brahmastra, directed by Ayan Mukerji. In late 2022, he will premiere a new opera.
In 2019 it was announced that he had been hired to write new songs and music for Avatar: The Way of Water and Avatar 3.
