Man Of Steel To Feature The Music Of Hans Zimmer

Back in the waning days of 2010, there was a rumor that said Hans Zimmer had been selected to score the upcoming Superman reboot, Man of Steel.
At the time the fit seemed obvious: Christopher Nolan is serving as a
producer on the upcoming blockbuster and he has worked with Zimmer on
all of his films since Batman Begins in 2005. The whole story was shut down
a few days later when someone from the press spoke to Zimmer who said
that he was not attached and that he hadn't even met with director Zack
Snyder about the film. Of course, just because Zimmer wasn't attached to
the project then doesn't mean he wasn't ever going to be attached, and
that was proven today.



Variety
reports that Zimmer has been hired to write the music for Man of Steel.
The reboot, which stars Henry Cavill as the Man of Tomorrow, takes us
back to the character's origin and his first battle with Zod (Michael
Shannon). Zimmer did all of the music for Nolan's Batman trilogy,
including The Dark Knight Rises - which comes out next month. Most recently he composed the score for Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted,
which has won the box office for the last two weeks in a row. This will
be the first time that Snyder hasn't used Tyler Bates as the composer
for one of his movies.



As if it weren't hard enough to create a score for a character so
important to pop culture as Superman, Zimmer has his work cut out for
him thanks to the work of John Williams. While Zimmer has certainly
shown over the years that he is more than capable of crafting an iconic
score, Williams' work on 1978's Superman was the stuff of
legend and is immediately recognizable to anyone on this planet. It will
be fascinating to see what Zimmer comes up with.