5/6/2023 0 Comments Lion king composer![]() And I wandered over to them and said, “Look, if I it's supposed to be 30 seconds and then get quiet, I can do that.” They said: “No, no, no, no, no, no. And they went off and huddled in a corner and they were talking and I thought they were basically talking about how they're going to fire me. And as I'm playing it to them and I’m going, “Shit, they asked me for 30 seconds and then dialogue scene and here's this four-minute thing with the big drum hit at the end,” which is only there because they were coming in and I didn't have time to do anything else. thing and then I did the whole song and the second chorus is different than the first because I had another idea and it's endless.ĭon Hahn and the directors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff came in and I played them this thing. They had said to me, “We want 30 seconds of ‘Circle of Life.’ Then it's a dialogue scene.” Then I started off with the Lebo M. So I remember getting it completely wrong. And the brief was go and make these western songs into African. It should be very atypical to a Disney movie, you know, and I sat there was Elton … you know, I'm such an Elton fan, so I could either be terrified and try to absolutely slavishly copy what he was doing or try and make it my own. ![]() I just had this idea that it should start with this African voice. I kept saying, “I don't want to write a musical.” And then they got the idiot who didn't know how to write a musical. I think a few people had to go at it at the songs. Hans Zimmer: I don't ever really know the complete history, but I don't think I was the first call. Moviefone: So let's talk about the written the original movie first because from what I understand, the songs were written pretty quickly and you gave them the scope that they ended up with. We were lucky enough to sit down with Zimmer in Beverly Hills recently, where we talked about the original film (which he won an Oscar for), whether or not he was interested in coming back to Pride Rock, why he never returned to work on another Disney Animation movie and what Pharrell brought to the production. (Zimmer even managed to recruit his buddy Pharrell Williams to help on the updated tracks.) He was an essential part of the original film’s success and he’s an essential part of the success of the redo. So it’s no surprise that Disney re-enlisted Zimmer for their gorgeous 3D animated version, opening this weekend. From then on, he helped give the movie scope and weight and added considerably to the songs written (quite quickly) by Elton John and Tim Rice. ![]() Zimmer, a composer who, by that point, had already worked with Barry Levinson, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Ron Howard, and Penny Marshall, commanded your attention from the opening frames of the film, as his bombastic “Circle of Life” brought every audience member to the savanna with jolting force. One of the more memorable aspects of the original “ The Lion King” (and, keep in mind, that was a movie made up almost exclusively of memorable aspects) was the score by Hans Zimmer. ![]()
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