Hans Zimmer Named as Composer for Zack Snyder's SUPERMAN Movie
The award winning composer, who has also worked on Christopher Nolan's Batman film, will try his hand as re-inventing the iconic Superman score.
What is considered the most well known and liked superhero theme song, composed by John Williams for Richard Donner's 1978 Superman movie, won't have a place in the Man of Steel's next theatrical appearance. Hans Zimmer (Pirates of the Caribbean, Sherlock Holmes) has been tapped to bring a brand new score to Zack Snyder's Superman reboot. The task will be quite a challenging one, but Zimmer feels up to the task:
“It’s a hard one, but I followed one of the most iconic things on Batman with Chris as well, and it’s the same thing. You are allowed to reinvent, but you have to try to be as good or at least as iconic and it has to resonate and it has to become a part of the zeitgeist. That’s the job. On Gladiator I remember people always talking about Spartacus and I kept telling them, ‘When you saw Spartacus and how it affected it you, that’s how I want a modern audience to be affected by what we do now.’ So I think ultimately you’re supposed to reinvent.”
The award winning composer is also working alongside director Christopher Nolan on his third Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, which will hit theaters in 2012; the same year as Superman's return to the silver screen.
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Interesting John
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Let's hope we get something as memorable as John William's theme, still probably one of my favorite superhero theme songs.
fanboiii
His work on TDK and Inception was phenomenal. I hope we'll be hearing brass instruments.
NoPurposeNaji
i have full faith in Hans Zimmer.to hear him and James Newtong Howard do one more track together is a personal dream of mine.However, i hope he makes it Iconic as the original one, rather than something like his Batman and Inception tracks, which were heavy and ( for lack of a better term) tragic.
mattMardock
Wow!!! One of my favorite movie score composer..
Phinehas
I don't think his TDK score was tragic, so much as it was just moody and dark. As opposed to the John Williams' uplifting march of the original Superman score. I like that tune so much, I listen to it in the car sometimes!
NoPurposeNaji
I don't think his TDK score was tragic, so much as it was just moody and dark. As opposed to the John Williams' uplifting march of the original Superman score. I like that tune so much, I listen to it in the car sometimes!
Agreed. Superman is a symbol of hope, and thus the music should be awe inspiring.Plus i didn't mean tragic in that sense..i mean, fast paced, dark, panic inducing. i told you, i can't really find the term for it, so bare with me
Samaritan
I trust Hanz. He is an absolute master of his craft. I jut hope he does not literally change Supes original theme. He can tweek it a bit, but I still want to hear the trumpets of hope!
My top composers:
John Powell
John Williams
Hanz Zimmer
Alan Silvestri
casinoskunk
Hans Zimmer is overrated and horrible. Also, the dude has to rely on additional composers all the time to complete his scores. This is the worse news i have heard in a long time!
The thing that pisses me off the most, is that the movie hasn't even started shooting yet. They don't even have a Superman cast yet. The score wont be recorded for 2 years, YET this is already "news". Hans Zimmer is either, so popular that he is considered newsworthy, or Hans Zimmer is so pompus that he had his publicist post this "news". Either way, Hans Zimmer is a name that is way more well known that it should be. It blows my mind that he is so popular. You would think that such a "talented composer" that is so well knows, he would be able to complete an hour and a half worth of music over the course of the next two years without relying on additional composers, but we'll see about that.
fanboiii
Horrible? Even if you don't like him, that's an exaggeration. He doesn't rely on additional composers. He prefers to collaborate. What's wrong with that? Working with a team is a skill in itself. And it's not like he takes all the credit. In fact, he goes out of his way to give due credit. If anything it shows he has an open mind and a good ego to achieve the best work he can. I think creative processes are becoming more and more collaborative anyway.
casinoskunk
I'm not talking about collaboration, like using James Newton Howard in the Batman scores. I am talking about the Additional Composers that are buried in the credits of all of his films.
Here are some examples: The Simpson's Movie - Ryeland Allison, Lorne Balfe, James Dooley, Henry Jackman, Michael A. Levine, Atli Örvarsson.
Pirate's 3 - Lorne Balfe, Tom Gire, Nick Glennie-Smith, Henry Jackman, Atli Örvarsson, John Sponsler, Geoff Zanelli
Please dont make me go on. The majority of his movies are like this. It is an hour and a half worth of music, is that too much to ask??
fanboiii
So you would rather him not give credit to composers he collaborates with? So what if there are additional composers? At least they're being acknowledged. You're knocking him down just because he isn't some solo Mozart genius. He has his own collaborative method and the results are nowhere near "horrible".
He could easily take all the credit and you'd think he did it all by himself. Maybe he's just more honest than other composers.
Interesting John
Web Developer
So you would rather him not give credit to composers he collaborates with? So what if there are additional composers? At least they're being acknowledged. You're knocking him down just because he isn't some solo Mozart genius. He has his own collaborative method and the results are nowhere near "horrible".
He could easily take all the credit and you'd think he did it all by himself. Maybe he's just more honest than other composers.
I actually have a lot of respect for him now based on that quote
casinoskunk
Notice when you see the end of any of his big budget movies in big bold letters it says Music BY Hans Zimmer. I just think if he had any class or respect for the hard working composers that "collaborate" with him, he wouldn't put his name up front.
When Danny Elfman came in and scored Nacho Libre after Beck's score had been rejected, Elfman removed his Music By credit because he did not feel right about taking credit for all the music in the film, especially since some of Beck's score remained in the film.
I don't give a crap who gets credit or not. My main problem with Zimmer is that when it comes to a movie that i actually care about, like Superman, i would rather have a cohesive narrative in the score as opposed to a pieced together mess like Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Not to mention the fact that his Joker "Theme" sounds like his cat slept on his synthesizer.
You listen to any comic book movie score by ONE composer and you can recognize any scene based on what cue you listen to. When it comes to Zimmer's stuff, like Batman, you can't decipher what the scene is based on the music. Give me someone like Michael Giacchino for Superman, now you are talking!
fanboiii
Nah, you're just a Zimmer hater for whatever reason. First you complain about the news being announced (LOL), then his collaboration, then credits, and now your "main problem" is lack of cohesive narrative in his music. I'm sure you have an infinite amount of reasons why Zimmer sucks. Guess you won't be buying the soundtrack to Man of Steel. LOL, or maybe you don't even watch movies ruined by Zimmer's awful music.
casinoskunk
Oh, i'm totally a Zimmer hater! The reasons are all the ones that i posted above. I will still go see superman, but to be 100% honest with you i did not see Sherlock Holmes because of him. I kid you not. Ha ha!! I also didn't see Inception, even though i wanted to, it had nothing to do with him, i just didn't have time.
The only Zimmer i have on my iTunes is from the Varese Sarabande compilations that i own. I love film music and all composers, with the exception of one. I was so glad to hear that James Newton Howard was doing GL on his own. Thats going to be a great score!
casinoskunk
whoops! Looks like Zimmer is not doing it. yet.
I assumed that Tyler Bates would be doing the score.
Interesting John
Web Developer
whoops! Looks like Zimmer is not doing it. yet.
I assumed that Tyler Bates would be doing the score.
Hmm, at least Zimmer realizes the iconic status of the Williams theme and how impossible of a task it would be to try and remotely top it, or even be on par with it.