Russ: When you’re doing something
new like this, creating new textures and
such, how do you know this is what you
want?
Chris: You have to be completely
creative and listen to what the
director’s wishes and concepts are.
Hans responded by writing the most
incredibly emotional music for what was
essentially a space movie with a very
strong humanistic family thread in it.
The whole thing was spiced up a little bit
by the involvement of the scientists Kip
Thorne and Steven Hawking who had a
very active role in working out the time
dimensional complexities when traveling
through galaxies and the length of time
that goes by when you enter black holes.
At the premiers I had the pleasure of
having quite in-depth conversations with
those guys.
The story behind the movie Interstellar
has become so “culty” so quickly that
we decided to do a live show calling
it Interstellar Live at the Royal Albert
Hall in London. It sold out in a day
and a half. The concert was basically
showing the film live in the hall with
the full symphony orchestra playing the
soundtrack. We took the soundtrack
off of the movie and just plugged in the
dialogue and the sound effects so that
was quite a complex mix situation in a
live concert setting. We preceded that
with a one hour talk by Chris Nolan,
Hans Zimmer, Steven Hawking and Kip
Thorne which was really fascinating,
there was a standing ovation for a
quarter hour at the end of it all. It was
so popular that we had offers in from all
over the world to tour that and without
giving too much away I’m sure people
around the world will be experiencing
that in 2016.
A couple of months earlier we had
done two shows at Hammersmith
Apollo in London called “Hans Zimmer
Revealed” which was the greatest hits
of Hans Zimmer in one show. With a
band, an orchestra and a group of singers
they performed everything from Rain
Man, Driving Miss Daisy, Inception, Lion
King, the Dark Knight movies, Gladiator,
Pirates of the Caribbean and more. It
was also ridiculously received so we are
touring that as well in 2016.
After Interstellar Hans asked me to
also produce the sound for the Little
Prince which we recently debuted at
Cannes and then screens in France in
July and globally after that.
Russ: Do you have any future movie
projects ahead?
Chris: Yes, it looks like the next one
is going to be Inferno which is the 3rd
in the Divinci Code trilogy with Ron
Howard directing, Tom Hank’s starring
and Hans Zimmer writing the score.
I’m the luckiest guy in the world really
to be working with some of the finest
artists in classical music, Jazz and now
films and along the way working with
crazy pop and rock and roll bands, I feel
very blessed.
Russ: Thank you Chris for sharing
your fascinating life with us.
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