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January 27, 2014: Making the Superman 75th Anniversary Animated Short

75th Anniversary Animated Short Voices From Krypton has posted the second part in a series of behind-the-scenes interviews with the people behind the 75th Anniversary Superman Animated Short. Here's an excerpt from their interview with director, storyboard artist and producer Jay Oliva...

    Q: Now this transition is where you have the Hans Zimmer theme theme kick in, right?

    JAY OLIVA: Yes. Originally everything was put to the John Williams theme, but I had to do an edit around the time where Super Friends was; I had to cut out the middle part of the soundtrack so that I would have enough time to get to the big ending. You know, the big crescendo on the Williams track. I made the musical edit and everybody liked it. I showed it to Zack Snyder and he loved the theme, too, but he also thought it was a good place to maybe transition to the Hans Zimmer theme. I thought he was right, so they sent over to us the soundtrack for Man of Steel. There's so much music in that thing, and we went to find what we could do and we ended up using the main theme. I put it right where the Doomsday fight started, because if we started it at the end, then when Henry shows up it wouldn't fit because there's not enough time to crescendo. My thinking was that as long as John Williams carries in to Christopher Reeve, then we're okay and we can transition into the Hans Zimmer material, because it starts with the death of Superman and moves forward. There was originally a really, really bad edit put in there because I'm NOT a music guy and it takes a lot of work to try to massage that music in. So we showed it to Zack and he was, like, "Yeah, I can see where there's a problem." He suggested we call Hans and see if he wanted to do it. Zack called and Hans said, "Sure, I can do it." He listened to it and said, "I can see where the problem is. You know what? I'm going to rescore this," and we couldn't believe it, because we were just going to use stock music. Again, this is one of those happy accidents - I wanted to use the John Williams theme, and now Hans Zimmer got involved, being more than willing to rescore it to help. And then, from what I heard much later when we were actually recording it with the orchestra, apparently Hans contacted John Williams and said, "John, I really want to get your blessing on this. Can you look at this piece? I'm trying to transition from your music into my music; this is kind of what I've come up with. What do you think?" And from my understanding, they went back and forth and John would be, like, "Why don't you try THIS chord," and they actually went back and forth and did this small collaboration. And that's what you ended up getting - isn't that awesome? So we ended up having this collaboration between Hans Zimmer and John Williams, which was quite nice.

Read the complete interview at VoicesFromKrypton.net


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