‘Dune 2’: Hans Zimmer Talks Composing Paul and Chani’s ‘Love Theme,’ Co-Writing ‘Gurney’s Song’ With Josh Brolin and Prepping for ‘Messiah’
variety.comHans Zimmer continued to write more music for the sci-fi epic. He was told to stop, but Zimmer insisted he would carry on, so much so that director Denis Villeneuve would joke that the composer was locked in the studio.
Except it wasn’t completely a joke. Like many, Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel was hugely influential to Zimmer growing up. He never watched David Lynch’s 1984 film adaptation, but rather “made this movie in my head,” Zimmer notes.
So, when Villeneuve approached him to score “Dune: Part One,” Zimmer was more than excited to hop on board, saying that “the first movie is really a preamble.” Zimmer told Villeneuve, “I’m writing because I know that we will be greenlit for ‘Part Two.’ And secondly, I think it’d be good for me to carry on writing and maybe inspire you with some things.” That ideology came in handy when Zimmer and “Dune” star Josh Brolin sat down to write “Gurney’s Song,” the baliset-backed tune that fans of Gurney Halleck, war master of House of Atreides, hoped to hear in “Dune: Part Two.” According to Zimmer, it wasn’t Villeneuve who approached him and Brolin to collaborate on a song together; it was Herbert’s novel. “We were just following orders from the book in a way.
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