Tom Holkenborg, known professionally as Junkie XL. (Photo courtesy Film Music Media)

Tom Holkenborg, the Dutch composer and DJ better known as Junkie XL, is scoring the December release Alita: Battle Angel, based on the Japanese manga series Gunnm by Yukito Kishiro

The Twentieth Century Fox release is directed by Robert Rodriguez and produced by James Cameron and Jon Landau. It stars Rosa Salazar in the mostly animated role of the cyborg warrior girl. Jennifer Connelly and Christoph Waltz also star.

Holkenborg’s most recent release was the March feature Tomb Raider, starring Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl, Jason Bourne).  Prior to that, he scored 2017’s Justice League, directed by Zack Snyder for Warner Bros.

He got his start playing in the band Nerve and producing metal albums. He launched Junkie XL in 1997, DJing in Los Angeles and around the world. He started performing songs and providing additional music to movies in the early 2000s, but it wasn’t until 2006 an Dimension Films’ mixed martial arts actioner DOA: Dead or Alive that he got his first solo composer credit in a motion picture.

Getting his foot in the door with Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control helped him land numerous contribution credits, resulting in a relationship with Warner Bros. that evolved into scores for 2014’s 300: Rise of an Empire and in 2015 Mad Max Fury Road, Black Mass and Point Break.  Other credits include Summit’s Divergent and Columbia Pictures’ The Amazing Spider-Man 2. More recently he composed Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and the August release Steven King sci-fi action adventure The Dark Tower (also for Columbia).

Holkenborg is represented by William Morris Endeavor’s Amos Newman. View the Alita: Battle Angel trailer here.