Hans Zimmer and Christopher Nolan have successfully collaborated in the past and their latest partnership will be judged against the success of those past endeavors. “Inception” is the third collaboration between the two men and the soundtrack is titled “Inception: Music From the Motion Picture”. Previously, Zimmer had composed the soundtracks to Nolan’s extremely successful “Batman Begins” (2005) and “Dark Knight” (2008). Zimmer said that Nolan had been discussing the movie with him for almost a year before a script was handed to him.
He said that at that point, it became obvious that some radical thinking was required. This meant more ideas being fired back and forth between himself and Nolan. Once filming started, Zimmer visited the set to get into the mood of things and to get a feel for the atmosphere. But strangely, he was not allowed to watch the edits as Nolan wanted him to work independently.According to Zimmer, this was in line with the theme of the movie which was “shared dreaming”. The concept on a very basic level was that if two minds work on the same project at the same time, their minds would get attuned them to the same pattern of thinking; therefore arriving at the desired result. So the first time Zimmer saw the edit was when the soundtrack had been ported on to it. His reaction – “It was surprising how well it worked”.