Talent agency lists Hans Zimmer scoring Modern Warfare 2 [update]

by David Hinkle on Aug 27th 2009 10:10PM

Update: Robert Bowling has confirmed Zimmer is contributing music to Modern Warfare 2.

Hans Zimmer is a pretty prominent composer on the Hollywood circuit, winning awards for his music for such films as Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean and As Good As It Gets. He's even worked on a game before, contributing original material to The Simpsons Movie: The Game.

If the composer's listing (PDF link) at GSA Music is to be believed, he's also composing the score to surefire multi-billion seller, Modern Warfare 2. We've reached out to Infinity Ward for comment and will get back to you as soon as we can.

[Via Kotaku]

Source - Hans Zimmer's profile at GSA Music (PDF link)

Tags: activision, composer, hans-zimmer, infinity-ward, Microsoft, modern-warfare-2, music, soundtrack, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (53)

Sounds nice.

No you don't *slap*

Didn't he also score The Dark Knight?

Yes he did the Dark Knight, that's what I was going to say.

Seriously, the Joker's theme is one of the most unsettling pieces of music I've ever heard. Two notes blended back and forth. Genius.

I didn't even notice what I did until after I sent it..

I'm surprised 50Cent isn't doing the score...

Am I the only one who misread the title?

cool cool, I thought this dude was going to retire from composing to just producing - looks like hes not going to retire anytime soon.

How could you not mention The Rock. The music in that movie was incredible.

Seriously, Zimmer is the fucking man.

Or how about The Dark Knight? The Lion King?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer

Make up your own mind....

The Dark Knight, Lion King and Last Samurai are my favorite scores of his.

FUCKKKKKK. How could I forget Gladiator? That's easily his best work.

With POTC second.

Crimson Tide, Black Hawk Down (man, that one inspired everybody to mix rock with arabic music).

August Rush anyone? Blending the chello-centric orchestral music with the "punk rock" band music.

This guy, nobuo uematsu, and joe hisaishi are the best music game/movie writers on earth.

I like Harry Gregson-William's work a lot. He's got a distinct sound to his stuff that you can just pick up on almost immediately. I know I did when I first popped in COD4. But then, maybe I wouldn't have if I didn't look him up and see he composed stuff for Metal Gear back in the day.

I dunno. Seems like a pointless change to me, and I question whether it's true or not. I could just be fussy though :P

The change from Williams to Zimmer seems pointless to me, I mean.

he is probably busy scoring peace walker.

Very nice, I was hoping that MW2 would have an awesome score. The score is one of the biggest things that drew me into the story and pace of the Halo games. Not to say that CoD4 had a bad score but it certainly isn't ingrained in my memory the way Halo's is

The Simpsons Movie: The Game?!! Is this a joke?

welcome to the humor of joystiq: 99% cheesy/lame. the other 1% is when they are funny by accident

@pete don't be so hard on them, although they were a little biased against SONY previous months. BTW Joystiq it's been said thousands of times to add an EDIT function, what gives? At least for registered members. Or getting more spam/comments means more to you?

basically if someone working on modern warfare farts, joystiq is there to write a blurb about it and try to make it funny

That guy is so great. I absolutely loved the soundtrack for Madagascar 1 and 2.

Gladiator- best soundtrack for dramatic music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjudEF7yobg

Epic. Now I have to buy this game (PC game is 60$, so I had doubts before).

Sorry, best dramatic soundtrack totally goes to Zimmer's The Da Vinci Code (followed closely by Angels & Demons). Gladiator is great and all, but The Da Vinci Code is one of his best works to date.

too bad the movie was a horrible adaptation of the amazing book.

Don't forget that he also composed the music in Black Hawk Down; it's one of my favorite movies. He would probably be a great fit for MW2 judging from his past works in the action movie genre.

No love for Pirates of the Caribbean? The song they roll at the credits is so awesomely epic it made me forget momentarily how corny each of the sequels were. That is evidence of a good soundtrack.

If this game doesn't bring tears to my eyes, I'm going to be disappointed in Hans Zimmer.

In slightly related news, I lost The Game.
Dame you Simpsons Movie : THE GAME!

DUDE HANZ ZIMMER IS DA MAN! I LUV GLADIATOR & THE DARK KNIGHT WONDERFUL MUSIC IMO he da reason ill buy the movie & corresponding soundtrack to listen for HRS, now MW2 is defiant buy! LOL

MW2 is defiant buy?

YEAH now ill get cuz of HANZ ZIMMER LOL.... oh yeah & dat horribly unrealistic multiplayer LOL

YES!!
I love film scores and I'm a big fan of his music :)
If the soundtrack becomes available on the PS Store, I'll definitely buy it.

The score for the "The Rock" which he did with Nick Glennie-Smith and Harry Gregson-Williams was great. Also like Crimson Tide, Broken Arrow, Back Draft,
Batman Begins, The Peacemaker, etc. I can go on and on :D

That explains why I confused Zimmer with Gregson-Williams when they mentioned Gladiator. Apparently Lisa Gerrard, who worked with Zimmer on Gladiator, also worked with Gregson-Williams in Man on Fire.

From Rain Man to this. Wow.

Wonder why Harry Gregson-Williams isn't returning.

hans zimmer is one of the best composers alive. the black hawk down music was awesome and i even have his theme from air force one as my ringtone

This guy has an almost ridiculous track record of amazing music, so this just makes MW2 more of a blockbuster.

Nothing can beat his work for Pirates of the Carribean, his score was amazing for all three movies.
Angles and Demons was also a pretty decent score.

How about his "Spider Pig" from The Simpsons Movie, can't get that out of my head.

John Murphy > all others

He did the album for Black Hawk Down ... that's an incredible soundtrack.

They're really pulling out all the stops for this game, aren't they. MW2 will definitely sweep the Game of the Year Awards, if only for Activision/Infinity Ward's effort.

Yeah first Fitty Cent, now Hans Zimmer. This will be the game to end all games.

This just adds to my belief that the producers of Blackhawk Down really ought to sue for royalties from Activision.

Both Hans and Harry own huge studios full of composers who they often designate work to, and these composers often create whole soundtracks without any input from the big men themselves. I know for a fact that Harry GW didn't actually write a note for MGS4, it was all done by his composer monkeys in his style. When I talked to him last year he hadn't even played the game himself. That's why they are both so very very rich and are able to 'compose' for so many projects at once.

At least all the orchestrators are listed in the credits. Mostly. Um, the name of the studio is mentioned. Sometimes.

He did Crimson Tide as well, epic movie.

Hans didnt do all 3 pirates movies. The first one was done by Klaus Badelt.

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Talent agency lists Hans Zimmer scoring Modern Warfare 2 [update]

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