Not that you’re totally shocked or anything because he did compose the excellent scores to “Batman Begins,” and “The Dark Knight” (with James Newton Howard), but director Christopher Nolan has tapped Hans Zimmer to score his upcoming sci-fi actioner that “takes place within the mind” (oooooh, freaky), “Inception.”
During Nolan’s tenure on the Batman franchise, he’s made one smaller picture in between caped crusader pictures, directing “The Prestige” before he attempted, “The Dark Knight,” possibly just as a mental palate cleanser. “Inception” is thought to be the same kind of m.o. However on, ‘Prestige,’ he used composer David Julyan, who also scored all of Nolan’s comparatively smaller films, “Insomnia,” “Memento” and his 69-minute debut, “Following.” So it is possible we can glean from this that “Inception” is not so small in relation to the “The Dark Knight” series?
Seems to be the case regardless and perhaps this is more evidence that it’s not just a minor stop gap and probably just as much a grand-scale and ambitious movie. If we can speculate a little bit more. Will he direct three big features back to back? Does this mean less chance of Nolan on “Batman 3.” Heh, pure conjecture on our part, but we do like the idea of nerdlingers freezing up there for a second and going, “oh no!” [NolanFans]
The scores for Batman Begins and The Dark Knight were great. Even without Newton-Howard I think they'll pull off the hat-trick. The Joker "theme" in the Dark Knight, that sounded almost like grinding, really stood out.
The Prestige was a great movie. It's movies like it that will hopefully get the Oscar spotlight now that they have 10 nominations.
I guess Inception fits that group as well given the cast.
Of all the complaining by fans of TDK about the Academy Awards not giving it credit, I really thought it was the score that would get nominated.
Julyan's work is underrated. His scores for The Prestige and Memento were great, if a little samey sounding (that goes for Insomnia as well). I like Zimmer too, but maybe they should've worked together on this?
hans zimmer=gross
Julyan's score for The Prestige was bland, but his other work is pretty good. An interesting fact, Zimmer actually helped produce the score for The Prestige.