

And I loved how wrong I was and how right he was." really? Seriously? This is the worst idea I've ever heard.I got a phone call from Gore on a Sunday going, 'Come over, have a look at this thing.' He showed me a movie that I couldn't possibly have imagined. I was working with Gore on something, and I said to him, 'So, what are you doing next?' He's going, 'Well, I'm thinking of doing this Pirates movie.' Okay, Pirates movie. And while talking about Pirates of the Caribbean, he said he originally thought the film was a bad idea. In a profile interview with Vanity Fair, Hans Zimmer discussed some of his biggest film scores in his career, including The Dark Knight trilogy and Inception.

Related: Kaya Scodelario Contracted To Return for Pirates of the Caribbean 6 That is until he saw what Verbinski had on his hands. The thing is, Zimmer was one of the movie's original detractors. But a great part of Pirates' success was Zimmer's score, which has been used in every Pirates film ever since. It not only garnered an astonishing $654.3 million at the worldwide box office (a great sum of money for its time, especially for an original film) but it also snagged five Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor for Johnny Depp, whose portrayal of Capt.

The first Pirates of the Caribbean movie marked the Mouse House's first PG-13 film ever, and the fact that it became as critically and commercially successful was a huge surprise to those involved. And he followed up his success with those movies by composing the theme song and soundtrack for Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean film in 2003, which helped launch Disney's most commercially successful live-action franchise outside Marvel and Star Wars. Zimmer is an iconic film composer who's scored major productions such as The Lion King and Gladiator. Hans Zimmer wasn't on board with scoring Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl until he saw the first batch of footage.
