Walt Disney Pictures have announced today that the soundtrack for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides will feature a first time collaboration with Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Inception, Sherlock Holmes, Gladiator, The Thin Red Line) and acclaimed guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela. Simmer worked on the last two installments of the Pirates trilogy. Read the full press release after the jump.
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Though we have yet to hear anything major from director Christopher Nolan, and probably won’t for some time, members of his crew have been spewing cautious quotes about what’s going on with The Dark Knight Rises. Nolan’s director of photography, Wally Pfister, has been quoted as calling the script “phenomenal” and now, composer Hans Zimmer spoke to MTV News and opened up – a little bit – about what he’s planning for the musical accompaniment to the film. Read his quotes and more after the jump. Read More »
Re-teaming director Gore Verbinski with Johnny Depp in the wild world of animation has most of us incredibly curious about Rango, which opens March 4. The film is about a chameleon who fancies himself a hero in a wild-west town that is not hero friendly. To give the film an authentic southwestern feel, Verbinski, along with composer Hans Zimmer, searched high and low for just the right sound. Enter Los Lobos, the Grammy-award winning band best known for their smash hit cover of ‘La Bamba,’ recorded for the movie of the same name. They came in and recorded a ton of music for the film including the theme song called Rango. Hear that and read more about the collaboration after the break. Read More »
Five days. That’s how long we all believed legendary composer Hans Zimmer would be scoring Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot. It was an odd piece of news considering Snyder hasn’t started working on the film full time yet, but we all just assumed the sooner a composer is brought on board, the more collaborative he could be. Plus, with an upcoming schedule that includes Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Sherlock Holmes 2 and Kung Fu Panda 2, anyone wanting to work with Zimmer would have to sign him up early. Much like Christopher Nolan has, or will, for The Dark Knight Rises.
The Hollywood Reporter spoke to Zimmer about this rumor and, shock of shocks, he denied the whole thing. Not only is he not scoring Superman, he’s never met Zack Snyder, would never think of tinkering with what he considers to be “one of John Williams’ greatest themes” and “his heart belongs to Batman.” Read all of Zimmer’s quotes after the jump. Read More »
UPDATE: This may have come too soon — re-reading the source story there’s the line saying that Hans Zimmer is scoring “Nolan’s new Superman chapter.” So there could be an error there that should have that reading Batman rather than Superman, in which case this is a moot point. More very shortly. Original article follows.
Last night’s Inception party has been the source of a few good tidbits. There’s the quote from Christopher Nolan about being able to close out his Batman trilogy with no interference from the studio, and the reports from his producer and wife Emma Thomas that Superman has been fully handed off to director Zack Snyder. (That latter point not really being in doubt, but confirmation is always good.)
And now Hans Zimmer says that he’ll be writing the score to Superman — something he’s recently discussed as a possibility — among many other projects he has on deck for 2011. Quotes and more info after the break. Read More »
What the hell is an augmented sound project? Good question. The company Reality Jockey created an iPhone app called RjDJ which, according to WiredUK, “detects ambient sounds, rips out samples or mutates them into harmonies, then intelligently mashes them up with what’s playing.” And now, also according to WiredUK, the company is working with Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer to create a new project based on the score to Inception. Read More »
Though Hans Zimmer has yet to officially sign on to score Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, he does have a meeting scheduled with the director to discuss it. That’s just one of the tidbits revealed in a new interview with the composer who is also scheduled to write music for the upcoming Sherlock Holmes 2, Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. In addition, Zimmer discusses his working relationship with Nolan – one that’s different from most other director/composer relationships - as well as what he would do if asked to score Zack Snyder’s Superman, which Nolan is also producing. Read Zimmer’s thoughts after the jump. Read More »
Count me in as one of the many who loved Hans Zimmer’s score for Inception. While not as “hummable” as some of his other work, the way it establishes mood and intensity is so sublime that I plan on listening to this one on my iPod for quite some time.
Are you a fan too? Either way, you can now download two free bonus tracks from the film’s score. Hit the jump to get the details.
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