Not that you’re totally shocked or anything because he did compose the excellent scores to “Batman Begins,” and “The Dark Knight” (with James Newton Howard), but director Christopher Nolan has tapped Hans Zimmer to score his upcoming sci-fi actioner that “takes place within the mind” (oooooh, freaky), “Inception.”
During Nolan’s tenure on the Batman franchise, he’s made one smaller picture in between caped crusader pictures, directing “The Prestige” before he attempted, “The Dark Knight,” possibly just as a mental palate cleanser. “Inception” is thought to be the same kind of m.o. However on, ‘Prestige,’ he used composer David Julyan, who also scored all of Nolan’s comparatively smaller films, “Insomnia,” “Memento” and his 69-minute debut, “Following.” So it is possible we can glean from this that “Inception” is not so small in relation to the “The Dark Knight” series?
Seems to be the case regardless and perhaps this is more evidence that it’s not just a minor stop gap and probably just as much a grand-scale and ambitious movie. If we can speculate a little bit more. Will he direct three big features back to back? Does this mean less chance of Nolan on “Batman 3.” Heh, pure conjecture on our part, but we do like the idea of nerdlingers freezing up there for a second and going, “oh no!” [NolanFans]