14 DAY TRIAL // Hans Zimmer has scored some of the biggest movies out there, including Chris Nolan’s Batman trilogy and the most recent “Man of Steel,” which had Nolan billed as producer and Zack Snyder as director. Zimmer is now saying he might not come back for the sequel.
Believed to be called “Batman vs. Superman,” the film will star Henry Cavill’s Superman from “Man of Steel” but Ben Affleck’s brand new Batman.
Zimmer doesn’t feel right about scoring it.
“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 Chris 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,” he tells Vulture.
He explains that, while he worked on Nolan on 3 Batman movies, he really isn’t fond of doing sequels. Then again, he admits, it’s not like Snyder asked him back.
“Zack hasn’t talked to me about it, so I don’t have to worry about it! I’ll worry about it when I have to worry about it, and then, if I’m lucky, I’ll have an idea. If I have an idea, I can do something with that, but if I don’t have an idea, then my good idea is going to be, ‘Get somebody else’,” he says with humor.
Since Zimmer’s music was instrumental in shaping Superman’s identity in “Man of Steel,” it would be weird not to have him back. On the other hand, could he score a Batman film again, after Nolan's trilogy, without bringing to the new version with Affleck any unwanted baggage from the trilogy?
We’ll see when the movie drops in 2015. In fact, strike that, we’ll see sooner than that, when the first promos for it are out.