Hans Zimmer On How Scoring ‘Dune’ Helped Him Feel Like a Teen Again

Hans Zimmer revisits why working on 'Dune' was an opportunity he’d wanted for five decades.

It turns out that Zimmer — who won the Academy Award for best original score in 1995 for and has been nominated 10 other times — had read the book as a teenager, as had Villeneuve, and had been waiting for this moment for 50 years. So when it came to creating the dark, provocative score for the Warner Bros. movie, based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel, Zimmer, 64, returned to his adolescent self.

is one of my favorite scores of all time, but I remember when I was watching it for the first time and it says, ‘In a galaxy far, far away,’ and I’m hearing strings and trumpets. I’m going, ‘Why do I hear contemporary music?’” That memory guided his thought process when it came to scoring . “[I thought,] ‘Let’s not just use conventional instruments,’” says Zimmer. “ ‘Let’s create a color palette that is completely custom-built for this movie.

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