There was some doubt Hans Zimmer might not return to score Batman vs. Superman. In fact, Zimmer was leading the charge telling Vulture, “Honestly, I’m just sort of grappling with that right now… Quite seriously, the thought right now is that no, I don’t want to go and take what I did with [Christopher Nolan] and just plonk it into another movie. There isn’t one good reason to do it, and there are so many good reasons not to do it.”
The biggest concern is clearly retreading the same territory he’s already traveled on Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy saying, “I wouldn’t want to put the ideas I used in the Chris Nolan Batman movies into a Superman movie. It just wouldn’t feel right.”
Well, I guess he’s comes to grips with the situation as he confirms with Digital Spy that he will return adding, “We’ve already had a couple of chats, and once I finish the movie that I shall not talk about I will probably head over to where Zack is shooting his movie and just hang out a bit and see if we can come up with any ideas.”
The movie he “shall not talk about” is, of course, Nolan’s Interstellar, but what’s most interesting about this is the way in which he’s approaching the two movies. With Batman vs. Superman he’ll just head over to the set and see what comes to mind while on Interstellar he’s already said Nolan kept the plot of the film a secret from him.
Zimmer told British GQ, “All I will say is this: before I began, last January, Chris said to me, ‘Hans, I will write one page of text for you. And you will give me just one day. Just write whatever comes to you from this one single page.”
I don’t know about you, but I think it’s plainly obvious which one Zimmer is more interested in and I can only assume a certain level of desire leads to better work.
