Title: The Last Starfighter (soundtrack)
Content:  The score for The Last Starfighter was composed and conducted by Craig Safan. In 1984, a soundtrack album was released on LP by CD by Southern Cross Records. The Southern Cross album includes two songs written for the movie by Safan and Mark Mueller. Two other songs written for the movie ("Satisfy The Night" from Karen Blake and Greg Prestopino and Clif Magness; "Red Eyes") remain unreleased.
Title: The Last Starfighter (soundtrack)
Content: Music Composed, Conducted and Produced by: Craig Safan ; Orchestrations by: Alf Clausen, Craig Safan and Joel Rosenbaum ; Electronics Engineer: Rick Riccio ; Orchestra Recording Engineer: Lyle Burbridge ; Music Supervisor: David Franco ; Score Recorded at: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Music Editors: Dan Johnson and Ken Johnson 
Title: The Last Starfighter
Content:  Composer Craig Safan wanted to go "bigger than Star Wars" and therefore utilized a "Mahler-sized" orchestra, resulting in an unusual breadth of instruments, including "quadruple woodwinds" and "eight trumpets, [trombones], and horns!"
Title: The Last Starfighter
Content:  The Last Starfighter is a 1984 American space opera film directed by Nick Castle. The film tells the story of Alex Rogan (Lance Guest), a teenager recruited by an alien defense force to fight in an interstellar war. It also features Robert Preston, Dan O'Herlihy, Catherine Mary Stewart, Norman Snow, and Kay E. Kuter. The Last Starfighter, along with Disney's Tron, has the distinction of being one of cinema's earliest films to use extensive "real-life" computer-generated imagery (CGI) to depict its many starships, environments and battle scenes. The Last Starfighter was Robert Preston's final role in a theatrical film. The character of Centauri, a "lovable con-man", was written with him in mind and was a nod to his most famous role as Professor Harold Hill in The Music Man. There was a subsequent novelization of the film by Alan Dean Foster, as well as a video game based on the production. In 2004, it was also adapted as an off-Broadway musical.
Title: The Last Starfighter
Content:   The Last Starfighter was shot in 38 days, mostly night shoots in Canyon Country. It was one of the earliest films to make extensive use of computer graphics for its special effects. In place of physical models, 3D rendered models were used to depict space ships and many other objects. The Gunstar and other spaceships were the design of artist Ron Cobb, who also worked on Alien, Star Wars and Conan the Barbarian. The computer graphics for the film were rendered by Digital Productions on a Cray X-MP supercomputer. The company created 27 minutes of effects for the film. This was considered an enormous amount of computer generated imagery at the time. For the 300 scenes containing computer graphics 
Title: The Last Starfighter
Content: Lance Guest as Alex Rogan / Beta Alex ; Robert Preston as Centauri ; Dan O'Herlihy as Grig ; Catherine Mary Stewart as Maggie Gordon ; Norman Snow as Xur ; Kay E. Kuter as Enduran ; Barbara Bosson as Jane Rogan ; Chris Hebert as Louis Rogan ; Dan Mason as Lord Kril ; Vernon Washington as Otis ; John O'Leary as Rylan Bursar ; George McDaniel as Kodan Officer ; Charlene Nelson as Rylan Technician ; John Maio as Friendly Alien ; Al Berry as Rylan Spy ; Scott Dunlop as Tentacle Alien ; Peter Nelson as Jack Blake ; Peggy Pope as Elvira ; Meg Wyllie as Granny Gordon ; Ellen Blake as Clara Potter ; Britt Leach as Mr. Potter ; Bunny Summers as Mrs. Boone ; Owen Bush as Mr. Boone ; Marc Alaimo as Hitchhiker ; Wil Wheaton as Louis' Friend ; Cameron Dye as Andy ; Geoffrey Blake as Gary 
Title: The Last Starfighter
Content:  plot" and continued "the action is suitably fast and furious, but what makes the movie especially enjoyable are the quirky character touches given to Guest and his fellow players." Variety also noted that film critic Gene Siskel described The Last Starfighter as the best of all Star Wars imitators. Alan Jones awarded it three stars out of five for Radio Times, writing that it was a "glossy, space-age fairy tale" and "highly derivative — Star Trek-like aliens have Star Wars-inspired dog-fights against a computer-graphic backdrop — but the sensitive love story between Guest and Catherine Mary Stewart cuts through the cuteness and gives the intergalactic adventures a much-needed boost."
Title: The Last Starfighter
Content:  Home versions of the game for the Atari 2600 and Atari 5200 consoles and Atari 8-bit home computers were also developed, but never commercially released under the Last Starfighter name. The home computer version was eventually renamed and released (with some minor changes) as Star Raiders II. A prototype exists for the Atari 2600 Last Starfighter game, which was in actuality a game already in development by Atari under the name Universe. This game was eventually released as Solaris. In 1990, an NES game titled The Last Starfighter was released, but it was actually a conversion of Uridium for Commodore 64, with modified sprites, title screen and soundtrack. A freeware playable version of the game, based on what is seen in the film, was released for PC in 2007. This is a faithful reproduction of the arcade game from the film and features full sound effects and music from the game. The creators of this game, Rogue Synapse, have also built a working arcade cabinet of the game.
Title: The Last Starfighter
Content:  In February 2008, production company GPA Entertainment added "Starfighter – The sequel to the classic motion picture Last Starfighter to its list of projects and two months later the project was reported to be "stuck in the pre-production phase". It was still there . Hollywood directors, including Seth Rogen and Steven Spielberg, as well as screenwriter Gary Whitta, have expressed interest in creating a sequel or remake, but Jonathan R. Betuel has allegedly indicated that he does not want another film made. The rights to the film have not been clearly defined due to conflicting information. Multiple sources say Universal Pictures still owns the theatrical and home media distribution rights while Warner Bros., which absorbed Lorimar-Telepictures (Lorimar's successor) in 1992, has the international distribution rights. Another source states that Universal has the option to remake the 
Title: The Last Starfighter
Content:  At the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, The Last Starfighter received an approval rating of 76%, based on 33 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "The plot is as barebones a space movie will allow, but The Last Starfighter captures an era and eager style of filmmaking well". Metacritic gave the film a score of 67 based on 8 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Over time it has developed a cult following. Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half out of four stars, stating that while the actors were good, The Last Starfighter was "not a terrifically original movie", but was nonetheless "well-made". Colin 

Question: Who was the composer of The Last Starfighter?
Answer: Craig Safan.
Craig Alan Safan.