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In an interview with Comic Book Resource, Zimmer essentially said that he would be scoring for Superman and Junkie XL would be scoring for Batman.
Wow that's hilarious. Zimmer certainly has taken as step down from collaborating with Newton Howard on the first two Bale Batmans...I'm guessing there will be absolutely nothing in this score for me (I mainly only liked the few Newton Howard bits in those earlier scores, anyway).
Sigh. Another great superhero score opportunity wasted. I could list at least 30 living composers I'd be super-excited about if they were scoring this film, but of course Hans Zimmer is not even near that list.
Mr. Zimmer should stick to smaller films, like Spanglish, where his melodic gift can shine and his gimmicks and press stunts can't. Plus, he is less likely to make a smaller orchestra sound like crap than a larger one, for some reason...he almost always makes big orchestras sound like they're composed of fake synth instruments.
Yavar
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Sigh. He agonized over Man of Steel, and (perhaps in a different way) Pearl Harbor. My expectations are veeeeery low. God if only Lolita Ritmanis or one of Shirley Walker's other talented protégés got a gig like this instead of being stuck using synths and samples scoring kid's TV shows on a low budget...
Yavar
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Very excited! Of course I am always on board for anything Zimmer, and indeed I loved his Man of Steel tunes, but I have also been enjoying Junkie XL's music too -- a lot of Divergent is terrific and Paranoia is very energetic. He doesn't always shine and some of his music suffers, but he's a new composer, so I don't expect him to be polished and seasoned. He's very good for the amount of work he's done so far.
Sure I would prefer Zimmer with JNH but that can't always be. Nor, in this case, and thanks for the context by Mastadge, can it be just Zimmer. Dawn of Justice's score won't be for everyone but I am definitely looking forward to it.
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I could be well out of the loop here, but I've never even heard of 'Junkie XL'.
He's larger than your average junkie.
I´ll nominate this response for post of the year!
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Mr. Zimmer should stick to smaller films...
THIS statement is hilarious and totally questionable.
HZ haters please take that exit.
Agreed. Zimmer has written many excellent scores for huge films (The Rock, Gladiator, Mission: Impossible 2, The Last Samurai, King Arthur, Batman Begins to name but a few). Besides, where do you think the money is? If Zimmer can get these major projects and do what he loves (and do it well) and earn a nice paycheck while doing it, who are you or anyone else to tell him he should be doing little projects?
As someone who actually enjoyed Man of Steel, I'm looking forward to hearing Zimmer return to and expand upon his Superman themes. Like others, I would have preferred to hear Zimmer say he would be turning over Batman scoring duties to, say, James Newton Howard instead of Junkie XL, but let's wait another 16 or so months to see how their music plays out.
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Agreed. Zimmer has written many excellent scores for huge films (The Rock, Gladiator, Mission: Impossible 2, The Last Samurai, King Arthur, Batman Begins to name but a few).
Agreed with your above statement as well.
But only IF he had stuck with THAT approach then his so called "contemporary music" could mean something.
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