From Batman Begins to Dunkirk to Inception and The Dark Knight, renowned German maestro Hans Zimmer has long been a favorite composer of British filmmaker Christopher Nolan.
Even if he recently enlisted the services of Ludwig Göransson for his last two feature films (Tenet and Oppenheimer), it is actually Zimmer’s baton that Nolan has long trusted to musically outfit his feature films. Also known for his signature scores for Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator and The Lion King, the composer also created from scratch the masterful soundtrack for Interstellar, considered by AlloCiné audiences as the greatest sci-fi film of all time.
Released in 2014 under the direction of Matthew McConaughey, Astronaut Cooper’s space and time epic undoubtedly marks the culmination of the collaboration between Nolan and Zimmer. As the composer revealed on the Reelblend podcast In November 2021, it was while listening to a piece of music he had created that he made the decision to embark on this new adventure.
“It goes back to Christopher Nolan and Interstellar.”– said Hans Zimmer when he was talking about the fateful and often delicate moment when he introduced film music to a director.
“Chris asked me to write the music before he wrote the script. So I played it. without looking at him. He was sitting on this couch that you can see behind me. So I wasn’t in front of him, I got to the bottom of the article and asked, “So what do you think?” He just leaned back and said, “Um, I think it’s in my best interest to make this movie.” And I asked him, what is this movie? Because he never told me what it was.”
These are the first notes of the haunting and majestic Interstellar score that Hans Zimmer composed on a day that unknowingly began one of his most beautiful works and a film score that is now considered among the monuments of science fiction.
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Source: Allocine
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