Composer Hans Zimmer Is Unsure If He'll Come Back For Batman Vs. Superman — cinemablend.com

Sponsor MOVIE NEWS Academy Award winning composer Hans Zimmer has crafted original themes for both Batman and Superman, working on Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy and Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, but at this time he doesn't know if he will be the one writing the music when the two legendary comic book characters come together in Snyder's Batman vs. Superman, set to hit theaters in 2015. Speaking with Collider, Zimmer revealed that he has not yet decided if he wants to come back and compose a score for the new film and that it will at the very least take a meeting with the director to convince him to do so. While not conflicted about the Superman side of the story, having already created a new theme for the character this past summer, it's dealing with the Caped Crusader again that has him vexed. Said Zimmer, �It�s creating a bit of a problem in my head right now. Quite honestly, I�ve gotta sit down with Zack and have a chat with him about what he�s trying to do because what I don�t want to do is go back to that well. It�s a different Batman; Christian Bale and what I did with Chris, that needs to have its autonomous life. I don�t want to go and now appropriate that and put that into the other Batman.� An equally daunting task was put in front of him when he was asked to write the music for Man of Steel, as he had to compete with Superman's original theme written by John Williams back in 1978. At the time Zimmer made doubtful statements similar to the one above, saying, "I�m not thinking of rewriting Beethoven�s ninth either. It just sounds like a thankless task, you know?" Of course, he eventually signed on anyway.

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