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The Hans Zimmer Empire |
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Who is Hans Zimmer? What is Remote Control Productions? If you know anything about me then you know that Hans Zimmer is my idol. While many people know who Hans Zimmer is they don't know how he has influenced the industry with Remote Control Productions. Most people may also know other great composers and don't realize that they came from the school of Zimmer. This page will show you every major composer that is part of the Zimmer Empire.
Remote Control Productions: Hans Zimmer's studio is located in Santa Monica, California. Long time Zimmer fans know the studio as Media Ventures. MV was run by Zimmer and his business partner Jay Rifkin. Rifkin then accused Zimmer of holding money out from him and sued him. Zimmer broke all ties with him and started his own solo studio. RCP is basically a multi roomed studio that houses not only Zimmer's personal studio but those of all the composers that he mentors. Since Zimmer stresses on collaboration he works with a hoard of young composers who start out working as additional music composers and arrangers on his scores and then they move up to compose their own scores. Hans Zimmer is the pioneer of electronic and orchestral fusion and his composers have gone out and have spread the film music revolution. Each composer, while they share similar styles as Zimmer, is completely unique and brilliantly original. |
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Hans Zimmer: The best composer working in Hollywood right now. If you want his full bio then go to my Hans Zimmer page. He is the reason why I am a filmmaker.
Some Of His Work Includes:
Gladiator
The Thin Red Line
The Da Vinci Code
Pirates Of The Caribbean Trilogy
The Simpsons Movie
King Arthur
The Prince Of Egypt
The Lion King
Crimson Tide
The Rock (co-composed with Nick Glennie-Smith & Harry Gregson-Williams)
The Last Samurai
Batman Begins (co-composed with James Newton Howard)
Muppet Treasure Island
The Road To El Dorado (co-composed with John Powell) |
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Harry Gregson-Williams: He has established working collaborations with Tony Scott, Joel Schumacher, and Andrew Adamson. Early in his career when he still worked alongside Zimmer he collaborated on a few scores with fellow composer John Powell. He is best known for his electronic based scores, his style is well known and often mocked but never successfully. Harry Gregson-Williams was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for his Narnia score.
Some Of His Work Includes:
Man On Fire
Shrek Trilogy (Shrek 1 co-composed with John Powell)
The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Antz (co-composed with John Powell)
Deja Vu
Kingdom Of Heaven
Metal Gear Solid 2, 3 and 4 (Video Games)
Phone Booth
Spy Game
Domino
The Rundown
Team America
The Number 23
Veronica Gueren |
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John Powell: One of the best and most versitile composers to come from Media Ventures is John Powell. Powell's sound is very unique and once heard is unmistakable. He uses orchestra much more than his fellow Media Venture composers, but still relies on synth sounds to get his effect. John Powell is right now one of the most requested composers for animation; his children movie scores are award winning and world known. In a flash he can do something has heavy as United 93 and then movie to a light-hearted fare like Happy Feet, he is that versitile. He often uses wind ensembles including higher note instruments like flutes, and that makes him stand out from the MV gang.
Some Of His Work Includes:
The Bourne Trilogy (Identity, Supremacy and Ultimatum)
Chicken Run (co-composed with Harry Gregson-Williams)
Antz (co-composed with Harry Gregson-Williams)
Shrek (co-composed with Harry Gregson-Williams)
Face/Off
Endurance
Happy Feet
Ice Age: The Meltdown
I Am Sam
X-Men: The Last Stand
United 93
Robots
Mr. & Mrs. Smith |
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Nick Glennie-Smith: While he has a small body of work as a solo composer it is his constant additional support to Hans Zimmer that is so valuable. Almost every Zimmer score has Glennie-Smith credited as an additional music writer, orchestrator, arranger or conductor. His solo music is very synth heavy, and while his body of work is small the scores he has done are unforgettable. He has been beside Hans Zimmer since the beginning.
Some Of His Work Includes:
A Sound Of Thunder
We Were Soliders
Attila
Highlander: Endgame
Home Alone 3
Man In The Iron Mask
The Rock (co-composed with Hans Zimmer & Harry Gregson-Williams)
Lion King II: Simba's Pride |
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Klaus Badelt: Klaus Badelt is right now scoring some of Hollywood's biggest films and he is getting world wide recognition for it. He worked as an additional composer on Gladiator and did his first solo score with The Time Machine. When Hans Zimmer was approached to score the first Pirates film he was way too busy with The Last Samurai. He promised Gore Verbinski that he would work on the film as much as he could, but he gave Klaus Badelt the responsibility of headlining the score. Hans wrote some of the main themes to the first Pirates and Klaus tied it all together in an extremely short amount of time. His career has since taken off.
Some Of His Work Includes:
Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (co-composed with Hans Zimmer)
Posiedon
The Time Machine
Rescue Dawn
Beat The Drum
Ned Kelly
The Pledge (co-composed with Hans Zimmer)
16 Blocks
Equilibrium
Ultraviolet
Basic
K-19: The Widowmaker |
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Mark Mancina: Starting his early career with Trevor Rabin's band Yes, Mancina's name may not be known to all but his tunes sure are. His themes are some of the most memorable behind Zimmer's work. His music truly stands alone and he is one of the best when it comes to scoring action and suspense. He is Jan De Bont's and Antoine Fuqua's close friend and he scores most of their films.
Some Of His Work Includes:
Speed
Speed 2
Twister
Training Day
Shooter
Tarzan
Brother Bear
Moll Flanders
Con Air (co-composed with Trevor Rabin)
Bad Boys
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Steve Jablonsky: Jablonsky's style is very similar to Zimmer's. He is now Michael Bay's composer of choice after working with Hans Zimmer and Trevor Rabin. Jablonksy has made a name for himself in the horror genre as well composing tense and well structured suspense music. His score to The Island has been uses every chance advertisers get in trailers and commercials.
Some Of His Work Includes:
The Island
Steamboy
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (remake), and prequel
The Hitcher
Transformers
Live From Baghdad
The Amityville Horror |
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Hietor Pereira: The heart and soul of numerous Media Ventures scores, mainly Hans Zimmer. This brilliant guitarist is just getting his feet wet with composing his own stuff. Even though young he is already the best guitarist working in film scoring.
Solo Scores Include:
Haven
Curious George
Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights
Ask The Dust (co-composed with Ramin Djawadi)
His Guitar Work Can Be Heard In:
The Road To El Dorado (Zimmer)
The Holiday (Zimmer)
Mission Impossible 2 (Zimmer)
Riding In Cars With Boys (Zimmer)
Something's Gotta Give (Zimmer)
Matchstick Men (Zimmer)
The Weather Man (Zimmer)
Flushed Away (Harry Gregson-Williams)
Domino (Harry Gregson-Williams)
Team America (Harry Gregson-Williams)
Man On Fire (Harry Gregson-Williams)
and almost every other MV score . . .
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James Dooley: Another up and coming composer currently housed at Remote Control Productions. Dooley has done great work as an additional composer for Zimmer and is getting his career going as a solo composer.
Some Of His Work Includes:
The Mars Underground
When A Stranger Calls
SOCOM 3 (video game)
Daddy Day Camp |
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Geoff Zanelli: A great composer who recently won an Emmy for his work on Into The West. He has been doing lots of additional music work for Hans Zimmer just like James Dooley.
Some Of His Work Includes:
Into The West
House Of D
Secret Window (rejected score) (replaced by Phillip Glass)
Disturbia |
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Jeff Rona: Rona is a contemporary composer who has actually been mentored by quite a few composers. His style is a bit different than the rest of the composers at Media Ventures, but it's brilliant nontheless. His first work was with Phillip Glass on Powaqqatsi. He toured a bit with composer Brian Eno, but he learned the ropes by working as an additional composer on a large amount of Zimmer's films. He collaborated as an additional composer for Cliff Martinez on Traffic as well.
Some Of His Work Includes:
White Squall
Earthsea
Traffic: The Miniseries
A Thousand Roads (co-composed with Lisa Gerrard)
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Rupert Gregson-Williams: His big brother has without a doubt made a bigger name for himself than he has. Rupert has been doing additional music for Zimmer for a bit and has actually done quite a few solo pieces. His style is a bit similar to his older brother, but he doesn't rely as much on the electronica sound.
Some Of His Work Includes:
Over The Hedge
Click
Hotel Rwanda
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (Video Game)
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Trevor Morris |
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Ramin Djawadi |
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Henning Lohner |
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Great young talent emerging from the school of Zimmer. Most of his work has been as an additional music composer for Zimmer's scores.
The Hills Have Eyes 2
The Tudors
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German born composer who mainly works in his native country. We heard some of his additional music on The Ring and his continuation of Zimmer's score in The Ring 2. |
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Works as an additional composer and is starting to get on track as a solo composer
Fly Me To The Moon
Mr. Brooks
Open Season
Ask The Dust (co-composed with Heitor Pereira)
Blade Trinity
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Remote Control Friends: These people never had Hans Zimmer as a mentor but are close friends with Zimmer and his group of composers. They sometimes collaborate with each other, but their success never relied on Zimmer. |
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Trevor Rabin: Rabin started out in a band called Yes and after is rock & roll days were over he moved to the film scoring business. Many people associate him with Hans Zimmer when in reality the only thing they have in common are their styles. Rabin made camp at Media Ventures only once just to be close to his producer when he was scoring Armageddon. He has collaborated with members of Media Ventures in the past and is a friend of Hans Zimmer. He is known for working with producer Jerry Bruckheimer and has scored some huge films.
Some Of His Work Includes:
Armageddon
The Great Raid
National Treasure 1&2
Remember The Titans
The Sixth Day
Snakes On A Plane
Gone In Sixty Seconds
Bad Boys II
Deep Blue Sea
Flyboys
Gridiron Gang
Con Air (co-composed with Mark Mancina)
Enemy Of The State (co-composed with Harry Gregson-Williams) |
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Lisa Gerrard: She is best known for her role in the New Age group Dead Can Dance. Her voice can be recognized worldwide just from the amazing range she has. Hans Zimmer was looking for the last ingrediant for his score to Gladiator so he started listening to some CD's for inspiration. He popped in a Dead Can Dance CD and instantly knew her voice was what the score needed. Gladiator is still the #1 selling soundtrack of all-time and almost everyone, whether or not they know the names Zimmer and Gerrard, can identify Gladiator's score when they hear it. Even though she did not compose any music for Gladiator, Hans Zimmer felt her contribution was so essential that he gave her credit as co-composer. She recieved an Academy Award nomination along with Zimmer for the score and has since gone to compose solo scores of her own as well as contribute her voice to Zimmer and his composers.
Some Of Her Solo Work Includes:
Whale Rider
A Thousand Roads (co-composed with Jeff Rona)
Ali
The Insider
Her Voice Can Be Heard In:
Gladiator (Hans Zimmer)
Black Hawk Down (Hans Zimmer)
M:I-2 (Hans Zimmer)
Tears Of The Sun (Hans Zimmer)
Man On Fire (Harry Gregson-Williams) |
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James Newton Howard: Howard is a close friend of Hans Zimmer and is known worldwide as one of the most accomplished composers working in Hollywood. He collaborates with M. Night Shyamalan and has composed all of his films. He has scored an incredible wealth of scores for some classic and contemporary films. Howard made small contributions to Zimmer's score for The Rock and finally they were able to work together with Batman Begins.
Some Of His Work Includes:
Dinosaur
The Village
King Kong (2005)
Blood Diamond
Collateral
The Interpreter
Prince Of Tides
The Sixth Sense
Batman Begins (co-composed with Hans Zimmer) |
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Lebo M: An African vocalist whose contributions to Hans Zimmer are the most memorable. He has composed a few scores of his own, but his vocals in Zimmer's scores are recognizable worldwide. Hans Zimmer is known for using African vocals in his scores, and this is a huge part of why Zimmer's scores are so memorable.
Lebo M's Vocals & Music Arrangement Can Be Heard In:
The Power Of One (Hans Zimmer)
The Lion King (Hans Zimmer)
Tears Of The Sun (Hans Zimmer)
Dinosaur (James Newton Howard)
Congo (Jerry Goldsmith)
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