Comingsoon.net spoke with composer Hans Zimmer about working on next summer’s The Dark Knight.

CS: Have you already started working on the score for “The Dark Knight”? Is that something you’re involved with this early in the production?

Zimmer: Playing%u2026 playing around until I get some ideas. Actually, I probably got too many ideas. There’s a sort of process that goes on whereby I’ve got all these ideas and you have to get rid of most of them. You just have to write them out of your system. At least, they’re all fabulous until they’re actually in front of you, and you realize that maybe it wasn’t one of your better days, but you don’t know until you’ve done the work.

CS: As far as “The Dark Knight” are you just trying different things? Is it going to be a completely different approach, different look or feel than the first movie?

Zimmer: No, it’s going to evolve. There is a big Batman theme, which I was playing with for the last one, but I always felt the character hadn’t earned it yet, so I just want to go play around and I want to go and complete the theme, so that’s part of the idea. I felt James [Newton Howard] and I had a good start, and now it would be really nice to develop that world a little further.