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‘Gladiator II’ Composer Harry Gregson-Williams Sought Mentor Hans Zimmer’s Approval To Tackle Sequel From The First Film – Sound & Screen Film
'Gladiator II' composer Henry Gregson-Williams sought mentor Hans Zimmer’s approval to tackle the sequel and borrow cues from the first film.
I called Hans immediately and said,’How do you feel about this?’” Gregson-Williams revealed onstage at Deadline’s Sound & Screen event Friday. “A few weeks later, I called [Hans] and said, ‘Look, I don’t see any negative reason to not use your theme in a couple spots, and also to utilize [vocalist] Lisa Gerrard in a slightly different way than you did in the first movie,’” the composer revealed. Traveling to “a field full of goats” in northern Spain, Gregson-Williams tracked down a musician who’d crafted a series of instruments plucked from ancient times.
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