Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. In an interview with the BBC today, composer Hans Zimmer said he's done, done, done with superhero scores.
This comes hot on the heels of his work on Batman v Superman, which he said was very hard to do because he had to try to find some kind of different approach to what he did with the Nolan films and the previous Zack Snyder Superman flick, Man of Steel.
I totally get that, especially when you consider he's also logged in a few other superhero or superhero related scores in the last decade, including The Amazing Spider-Man and MegaMind (I said "superhero related").
Zimmer is undoubtedly a great composer (I think his work on Pirates of the Caribbean is some of the catchiest scores since LOTR), but this is good news, in my book. I wouldn't trade his tone-perfect score for The Dark Knight, but I'm growing very tired of tone music in superhero movies. Give me a big, booming, catchy, manipulative score that gets me pumped up instead of background music any day of the week.
And Zimmer's not the only one doing that, by the way. Marvel's had some huge success with needle-drop soundtracks (AC/DC for Iron Man and the Awesome Mix from Guardians), but whistle Thor's theme for me. How about Black Widow or Hulk's theme?
I'd love to see that turn around a little bit and maybe with Star Wars' huge success maybe filmmakers will start asking that of their composers. I don't expect to see that change within the Zack Snyder DC universe since the whole mandate going into Man of Steel was to abandon the big, John Williams style thematic score to make sure everybody knew this was a whole new Superman.
If Zimmer's feeling burned out, it's better that he follows his passion. We'll get better music and he'll be happier.
What do you folks think?
-Eric Vespe
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