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    Morning Becomes Eclectic

    Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard

    Novena Carmel
    Novena Carmel
    Hand-Picked MusicIndie / AltSoul / Funk
    Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard talk about their collaboration scoring The Dark Knight on Morning Becomes Eclectic at 11:15am.
    Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard talk about their collaboration scoring The Dark Knight on Morning Becomes Eclectic at 11:15am.
    Jan 7, 2009

    The Dark Knight

    [Warner Records]

    Hans Zimmer and

    James Newton Howard talk about their collaboration scoring

    The Dark Knight on

    Morning Becomes Eclectic at 11:15am.

    Transcript

    Morning Becomes Eclectic

    Batman Begins, which was so successful for Hans and I, I think, because we were either going to succeed or not speak to each other any more and we ended up becoming better friends that we were -- now the combination of the two of us has become the voice of the score in a way. So it’s no longer any kind of a liability. I think if Hans were to do the whole score or I were to do the whole score, it wouldn’t be the same.

    Batman Begins. So we were all so geographically next to each other and with each other for 6 or 8 weeks. It did become very much – there never was a defensive moment really, it was like, if we have a problem Hans will know how to fix it or someone will know how to fix it.

    Agent of Chaos and this does feature the incredibly strained and distorted cello. Set this up a little bit.

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        Jason Bentley

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