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Hans Zimmer on His Most Unusual and Underrated Scores


“I managed to go and fuck with the very fabric of time.”

In addition to being a current Oscar contender for Blitz, the veteran composer is now playing shows across the United States and Europe with dates scheduled through March 2026. The reason I did it wasn’t just because I was bullied into it by Johnny Marr and Pharrell but because I was really afraid that orchestras were going to become redundant because people will say, “Oh, that’s not modern” or “That doesn’t mean anything.” I wanted to say, “Hey, look at this. You owe it to your audience.” Prince and Sinéad O’Connor contributed songs to the original version of the 1994 flop, which James L. Brooks shot as a musical satire about the film industry.

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