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Zimmer on BATMAN BEGINS

The MyMovies web site has posted an interview with composer Hans Zimmer about his score for BATMAN BEGINS. While the interview doesn't really get into the intricacies of the film's actual score, Zimmer does describe the process of getting the gig, and of working with fellow composer James Newton Howard on creating the film's large, hybrid score.

"I really want experiment with electronics for a bit and I really don't want to push a big orchestra around the landscape for a while and I don't know about the superhero thing too," a reluctant Zimmer told the Warner studio exec who wanted him to score the film. "So he said 'Why don't you do it with a friend of yours, get him to take some of the weight off your shoulders?' So I remembered that James Newton Howard and I had been talking for years about doing something together. Our studios are four blocks apart and we see each other socially so I phoned him up and James was absolutely up for being my partner in crime on this."

Zimmer was asked what he thought about moving into a movie franchise that already had a couple of very identifiable themes: "I just thought it would be counter productive to go look at the all the old movies again. I was working on a Chris Nolan movie with a whole bunch of new actors, a whole bunch of new toys and Batmobile that didn't look anything like that little Corgi thing I used to have as a kid. So I thought: do what's appropriate for this film. We did write this huge heroic Batman theme which isn't in the movie because it just wasn't that sort of movie and I wanted to stay true to what Chris was putting on the screen."

Full story at: http://www.mymovies.net/interviews/text_feature.asp?featureid=FTRE/4056/0906200516231705&filmid=4056&sec=trailers