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Hans Zimmer Comments On His Influences And Preparation For TDKR Score!

Having worked with director Christopher Nolan on The Dark Knight and Inception, composer Hans Zimmer now talks about the different appraoch he's taking for this movie as well as potential influences...

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By Josh Wilding - 7/5/2011
"Chris and I do work really well together," Zimmer told BBC News in a recent interview. "He is my guardian angel when it comes to my music. He protects it tremendously and makes sure it gets heard."

"When you start the next project you have to forget everything you did before, otherwise Dark Knight will start to sound like Kung Fu Panda," he added. "I just throw myself into one thing and become a monk. I sit in my room and get grumpy and don't answer the phone. It's the only way I know how to do it."

Next up for Zimmer is Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes sequel - set to be released later this year - but that doesn't mean he's not already preparing for The Dark Knight Rises. Most interesting were his comments about where he's looking for inspiration in advance of writing the score.

"I’ve been listening to a lot of Verdi lately. And Alison Goldfrapp, and a lot of electronica as I’m heading into ‘Dark Knight’ territory again. I've been in the studio trying out ideas. I'm embarrassingly far advanced. I sent Chris some stuff the other day and he thought it was really unusual that I wasn't holding the whole thing up."

"Of course I'll try to make it different, but I'm not going to abandon the musical language of the previous film. It's a matter of knocking down some walls and making it broader, wider and more epic."


Pretty interesting, eh?

With an all star cast which includes Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Garly Oldman as Jim Gordon, Tom Hardy as Bane, Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake and Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate, The Dark Knight Rises is set to be released on July 20, 2012!



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Source: BBC News
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StrangerX - 7/5/2011, 6:50 AM
The score for TDK was awesome. Looking forward to this. I hope he really hits it on the nail when we see Bane rip into bats
emeraldprince - 7/5/2011, 6:51 AM
@Tea......"jump jump"
Fogs - 7/5/2011, 6:53 AM
Not related, but this green lantern ad pisses me off, with the video playing on load.
StrangerX - 7/5/2011, 6:59 AM
Tea only listens to Criss Cross bcus they wear the pant zippers in the back.
6of13 - 7/5/2011, 7:17 AM
I wonder if he will also compose the theme for Man of Steel.

The John William's score is epic, but I suppose that there will be a completely new score for the new Superman movie.
siddhant1138 - 7/5/2011, 7:50 AM
Is James Newton Howard not involved with this one?
PapaMidnight - 7/5/2011, 9:38 AM
Turn that damn GL ad off, pleeeease... the damn thing is driving everybody crazy!

And yeah, mr Zimmer is fantastic... but I hate electronic music...
ar8898 - 7/5/2011, 11:14 AM
Is this guy doing the music for Man of Steel??
Seph - 7/5/2011, 11:58 AM
for frick sake it's Hans Zimmer , he knows what he's doing.
DukeAcureds - 7/5/2011, 12:15 PM
The Inception score was classic. Okay, so it didn't win the Oscar, but Trent got it, which is just as cool. Goldfrapp is a strange influence to draw from, but she is good. As long as it's being inspired by the first album, not the successive disco-inspired albums. That first album was really dark, in parts.
SpiderFan35 - 7/5/2011, 1:07 PM
I liked the Inception score better than TDK but it was still good.

And yes, please for the love of GOD remove the GL ad, not only is it annoying every page change, but must we suffer the irony of having this movie that we have bashed repeatedly haunt us every day?
Be gone evil mediocre CBM!
kalel38 - 7/5/2011, 2:51 PM
sure wont snyder get tyler bates for man of steel?
revolver737 - 7/5/2011, 9:28 PM
@ClarkKent1985- just like John Williams. Seems like Holst is a fav of rip off artists.
batmanrises - 7/5/2011, 10:14 PM
Loved the Dark Knight score! Now this is news.
DukeAcureds - 7/7/2011, 5:22 AM
@ClarkKent1985 - Dude, you still around? Could you point me in the direction of the composers/pieces that Hans Zimmer ripped off for the Inception score? Because I loved that and have been going around saying it's the best score since Phillip Glass's The Hours.

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