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” — from his brooding theme for Bruce Wayne to children’s choir for the Riddler and noirish stylings for Catwoman — is the year’s most talked-about score and among his most ambitious yet.
This is their fifth film together . Reeves brought the composer on board in 2019, even before he cast Robert Pattinson as Gotham City’s caped crusader. “The idea of doing that character, that world, is something I knew would resonate with him, just as when we were doing the ‘Apes’ films together, because we were both incredible fans from childhood.”
His slinky Catwoman theme emerged from discussions of classic noir scores including Jerry Goldsmith’s “Chinatown,” Reeves reveals. “So we talked about incorporating those kinds of strings. Michael had written this beautiful theme for her that had almost gotten too purpley, with a sax and everything. So he stripped that back, but there’s a bit of a noir lilt to it, a slightly jazzy vibe.”
Giacchino wrote all the main themes prior to shooting, Reeves says. “We edited with them, I started showing him the movie, and then he began writing again. I came to his house and we did what we always do, sit together, go through it and talk about scenes.”