Joel McNeely (born 1959) is a music composer for movies and television.
Biography
Joel McNeely was born in Madison, Wisconsin. Both of his parents were involved in music and theater, and as a child he played the piano, saxophone, bass, and flute. He attended the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, studied jazz at the University of Miami, and earned a masters degree as a composition major at the Eastman School of Music.
Lucasfilm chose McNeely to compose the soundtrack to the 1996 Star Wars novel Shadows of the Empire. This was an experimental project where he conveyed general moods and themes instead of writing music to flow for specific scenes.
He is also notable for conducting a series of re-recordings of Bernard Herrmann, Franz Waxman, John Barry and other's scores under the label of Varèse Sarabande, notably Vertigo, Psycho and Citizen Kane, and selected scores from the Twilight Zone television series, among others. He also composed the score for The Avengers and the theme and music for FOX's Dark Angel also scored the movies Terminal Velocity, Iron Will, Flipper, Gold Diggers, Samantha, Virus, I Know Who Killed Me (2007). He also scored a multitude of Disney animated films (Mulan II, Peter Pan: Return to Neverland (2002), Tinker Bell and many others).
Filmography
- Samantha (1992)
- Iron Will (1994)
- Radioland Murders (1994)
- Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)
- Terminal Velocity (1994)
- Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995)
- Flipper (1996)
- Vegas Vacation (1997)
- Wild America (1997)
- The Avengers (1998)
- Soldier (1998)
- Virus (1999)
- Return to Never Land (2002)
- Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)
- Holes (2003)
- Uptown Girls (2003)
- America's Heart and Soul (2004)
- Stateside (2004)
- Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)
- I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
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