![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On that movie, on Batman Begins, we truly did co-write every cue together with the exception of the most famous cue, which he wrote, which is the two-note thing. His door was open, I could hear what he was doing and my door was open, he could hear what I was doing. We set up two writing studios, a pair of studios in London up on the third floor across the hall from each other. The duo composed almost every musical cue together featured in Begins. The partnership was a true collaborative effort. James Newton Howard James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer: The Dynamic Duo We use the same technology, we tend to approach scores the way you would approach making a record – that is, the production values are extremely important to us, how the bass drum sounds, what the low end is like, is the mid-range too harsh? We really try and shape it sonically, so that allowed us to have a lot of commonality. Howard spoke to Collider about how he got involved.Ĭhris Nolan called Hans and said, “I’m doing this Batman movie, do you wanna do it?” and Hans said, “Yeah, can I do it with my mate James Newton Howard?” and he said “Yeah great!” The thing is, Hans and I are wildly different musical entities, but we do have a similar process. However, when the grounded Batman Begins started production, Zimmer approached Howard to help with the movie’s score. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense and Peter Jackson’s King Kong. Prior to Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy of films, Howard’s most famous score was in M. Composer James Newton Howard has discussed his collaboration with Hans Zimmer to create the bombastic score for Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight. ![]()
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