Hans Zimmer Thinks Batman Needs A New Theme

Composer Hans Zimmer has made the music we listen to for over a hundred films. Films of all types ranging from The Lion King, which he won an academy award for to 12 Years A Slave. Hans Zimmer also helped composed all three of Christopher Nolan’s Batman films (along with Nolan’s latest film, Interstellar), In a recent interview with Den Of Geek, Hans Zimmer talked about how he feels Batman needs a new theme for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which he is also composing the score for.

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"It’s not even like I’m being secretive. It’s just when Zack (Snyder) said to me, “I’m going to have Batman in this one…” — people forget that what we do isn’t careers. It’s our life. Chris and I spent nine years of our lives invested in that character of Batman and treating it with great respect. And suddenly I’m going, “So I need to go chuck all this out and sort of reinvent it.” But I don’t want to go betray our last nine years. And that’s how it felt to me — like I was going to betray Christian Bale in a funny way by going, “Whatever you did, that was just my practice run.” But it wasn’t. It was nine years of my life.So I thought, just like on the first one, Batman Begins, where I had James Newton Howard come in and it became this collegial thing, let me bring someone else in. And I’ve been working a lot with Junkie over the last couple or so years. And the thing that I know that you guys don’t know I’ve heard some of his Mad Max: Fury Road work and it’s phenomenal. So I said to him, you’ll have a completely new fresh slant on this. Let me deal with all the other characters. And Zack loved the idea because Zack loves Junkie."

I’m sure most of us have a favorite Batman theme that really defines the character for us, but he’s also had many themes over the years, most of them really memorable. I’m sure Junkie XL will give us another memorable theme that will define Batman for many.

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