Information around Christopher Nolan's upcoming 'The Dark Knight Rises' has been kept very close to production, with very limited details actually being released. Now the folks over at SheerBuzz caught up with Hans Zimmer at the
Critics Choice Movie Awards and asked him a little bit about plans for the score for the last installment in the Batman trilogy.
Has Nolan already involved Zimmer in the plans for the film?
“Yes,” Zimmer said with a smile. “And that’s all I’m going to say.”
So he knows the arc of the story and the villains, etc.?
“Possibly,” he said. “I’m thinking, I’m working, and I can’t tell you anything more.”
We pushed just a bit, asking whether his new score will incorporate themes from the first two “Batman” films and whether he’s thought about how to tie everything together.
“Sure, but the thing about Chris and myself is, of course what we try to do is we treat each one with the economy it deserves,” he explained. “I try to invent and reinvent and not just go over old ground. I think that’s the thing that was so exciting for people on ‘The Dark Knight.’ They knew we were doing a ‘Batman’ movie, but they had no idea it was going to be that sort of a ‘Batman’ movie.”
So is Zimmer already hard at work on the new themes for the score, even though nothing has been filmed yet? “Could be,” he teased. “Of course. Chris likes working that way, that I can give him music before he starts cutting. It’s very different.”
I think Hans did an amazing job in the past two Batman films with the score. Normally, it's not something I really notice and pay attention to, it's just background music that doesn't even register, but in the Batman movies, I really noticed it, it stood out to me and it was a very big part of the films in my opinion.