Hans Zimmerknows what you expect a sci-fi film to sound like.
Here comes the French horn,'" Zimmer tells EW.
The composer wanted to create a decidedly different score forDune.
The spice melange as seen in ‘Dune.'.Warner Bros. Pictures
Zimmer is just as passionate about the material.
“And the other stuff, let’s just make it up.
We made up strange instruments, we literally built instruments to go and do this.”
Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) gets tested in the ways of the Bene Gesserit by Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam (Charlotte Rampling) in ‘Dune.'.Warner Bros. Pictures
Zimmer’s not kidding.
“He makes these instruments with very strange tunings,” Zimmer says of Smith.
But the most important thing, ultimately, was that we had extraordinary singers.
The great sandworm rears its head in ‘Dune.'.Warner Bros. Pictures
My Australian friend, Lisa Gerrard, didn’t want to be up front.
So she’s like the beautiful wind that goes across the sand."
The sounds ofDunestretch even beyond the score, though.
He very much encouraged us to collaborate on that.
I think there are areas where that crossover creates something very alien and unusual."
That led us down the path of augmenting the voice with the voices of your ancestors.
We set about casting the right voices that would accompany Paul and Jessica when they summon that power.
To create those sounds, Mangini and Green went straight into the sand.
We found all these similarities between water and sand, worms and whales."
For Zimmer, it’s about coming as close as he can to bringing the audience into the orchestra.
“They were surrounded by sound, they were surrounded by instruments.
It was a completely different experience for them, of course.
It’s a great thing to do and normal people don’t get that privilege of doing that.
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