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Hans Zimmer is so influential as a film composer that, after 125 movies, it becomes more and more difficult not to repeat himself. But director Christopher Nolan set him an original challenge in this summer’s most aniticipated film

IMAGINE YOU are one of Hollywood’s most successful and influential film composers, with million-selling albums and your own recording studio. Imagine you are working with one of Hollywood’s most successful writer-directors, with several hundred-million-dollar award-winning films. Imagine you both spend months talking together, sitting on the beach in Malibu watching your children play, or on a film set in London, planning how your music will work with this summer’s most anticipated film. And imagine when the movie has finished shooting and you are about to begin scoring it, the director turns to you and tells you that you cannot see the finished film until you have written the whole score . . .