Catwoman and Bane Themes

David Julyan, Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard, and Ludwig Göransson
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Who's creating which theme?

In BATMAN BEGINS, Hans and James created much of the musical world hand-in-hand. Hans focused more on Batman and James more on Bruce.

In THE DARK KNIGHT, Hans created the theme for The Joker while James developed a theme for Harvey Dent/Two Face that was based on a previous theme in BEGINS, one that I refer to as the Becoming a Hero theme.

So, for THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, who's scoring what?

Although at first I am inclined to think that James would score Selina Kyle - not only because of stylistic choices, but also a possible character connection to Bruce Wayne - I am starting to think that Hans is too flamboyant to not want to jump all over such a character.

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I have a feeling that Hans will do something like "Why so serious" for Bane in TDKR.
"Why so serious" was simply genius.

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Thanks Teddy for moving the discussion here; it was getting buried in the other thread.

If Bane is going to be more physically and intellectually intense, I would hope for the theme to be deeper/heavier than what we got for the Joker. I would like a duality in the theme too, since physical strength and intelligence very rarely co-exist naturally in an individual.

I also wonder how much of a latino background Bane has, and how much of that are we going to get on screen to merit a track number.

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I think JNH will get Catwoman, although I would like to hear Hans' interpretation.

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Do we know who did what tracks in the previous scores?

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Inceptic wrote:Do we know who did what tracks in the previous scores?
here's a tracklist of The Dark Knight's recording sessions:




1M00 LOGO
Hans Zimmer

1M01 BANK ROBBERY
Hans Zimmer

1M02 FIND THE BATMAN
Hans Zimmer

1M03 BUYER BEWARE
Hans Zimmer

1M04 DIRTY CASH (UNUSED)
James Newton Howard

1M05 THE NEW DA
James Newton Howard

1M06 HOSTILE WITNESS
James Newton Howard

1M07 BANK WARRANTS - LSI HOLDINGS
James Newton Howard

2M09 WHO APPOINTED BATMAN?
James Newton Howard

2M09 WHO APPOINTED BATMAN? (ALT)
James Newton Howard

2M10 MOVE THE MONEY
Hans Zimmer

2M11 KILL THE BATMAN
Hans Zimmer

2M12 HALFWAY TO HONG KONG (UNUSED)
James Newton Howard

2M13 TRIP TO HONG KONG
Hans Zimmer

2M14 PUT A SMILE ON THAT FACE
Hans Zimmer

2M16 LSI EXTRACTION
Hans Zimmer

2M17 MOBSTERS TAKEN TO JUSTICE
James Newton Howard

2M18 ARE YOU UP TO IT?
James Newton Howard

3M20-21 A HERO WITH A FACE
James Newton Howard

3M22 JOKER CRASHES THE PARTY
Lorne Balfe

3M23 PANIC ROOM
Lorne Balfe

3M24-25 YOU'RE GONNA LOVE ME
Hans Zimmer

3M26-27 WATCH THE WORLD BURN
Hans Zimmer

3M28 LOUD ENOUGH
Hans Zimmer

3M30 SPEECH AMBUSH
Hans Zimmer

3M32A DENT TO VAN
James Newton Howard

3M32B GORDON IS DEAD
Hans Zimmer

4M34-35 RACHEL NEXT
James Newton Howard

4M37-38 INTERROGATING SCHIFF
James Newton Howard

4M37-38 INTERROGATING SCHIFF (ALT)
James Newton Howard

4M39A BLOOD ON MY HANDS
James Newton Howard

4M39B THE OUTCAST
Lorne Balfe

4M40 I AM THE BATMAN
James Newton Howard

4M41 TRUCK CONVOY
Hans Zimmer

4M42A POD DEPLOY
Hans Zimmer

4M42B BATMAN DOWN
Hans Zimmer

4M43 WE GOTCHA
James Newton Howard

4M44 GORDON RETURNS HOME
James Newton Howard

5M45 YOU COMPLETE ME
Hans Zimmer

5M46-47 WIRED
Hans Zimmer

5M48-49 HARVEY TWO-FACE
James Newton Howard

5M50 THIS IS MY CITY
Hans Zimmer

5M51-52A HOSPITAL BOMB SCARE PT 1
Hans Zimmer

5M52B HOSPITAL BOMB SCARE PT 2
Hans Zimmer

6M53 EXPLOSION AFTERMATH
Hans Zimmer

6M54A DENT KILLS WERTZ
James Newton Howard

6M54B SONAR SYSTEM
Hans Zimmer

6M54C UNLUCKY DRIVER
James Newton Howard

6M55 THE FERRIES
Henry Jackman

6M56 ALWAYS A CATCH
Hans Zimmer

6M57 STORMING PRUITT BUILDING
Lorne Balfe

7M58 GIVE IT TO ME
Henry Jackman

7M59 A LITTLE PUSH
Hans Zimmer

7M60A EYE FOR AN EYE
James Newton Howard

7M60B DENT DEFEATED
Hans Zimmer

7M61 I'M NOT A HERO
Hans Zimmer

7M62 A DARK KNIGHT
Hans Zimmer

103BPM ACTION ICE THEME
Hans Zimmer

HARVEY DENT SUITE
James Newton Howard

NEW BATMAN THEME
Hans Zimmer

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Nice, thanks for posting that:)

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Jonas Agersø wrote:I have a feeling that Hans will do something like "Why so serious" for Bane in TDKR.
"Why so serious" was simply genius.
Agreed.

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I hope Bane has something way different from The Jokers theme...
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Well, now that JNH isn't doing any of the themes, Zimmer's doing all of them! So will the Catwoman and Bane themes differ? Will they even have themes?

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