Justice League Composer Confirms Which Batman Theme Will Be Used

In a move that should excite old school fans of the Caped Crusader , Justice Leaguecomposer Danny Elfman has confirmed that he ’s make for back the classic motif music he primitively created for 1989’sBatman . Best know for his collaborations with director Tim Burton , Elfman has become a Hollywood legend in his own right hand during his 40 + years in the diligence . Amongst a legion of other honor , he won a Grammy for his employment on the Burton - directedBatman , the first big - budget blockbuster of his career . The award was well earned , of course , and almost three decades later , his musical score is still weigh by many to be the classic theme medicine of the Dark Knight . ( To be reasonable , the fact thatBatman : The Animated Seriesborrowed heavily from it for its opening successiveness for certain did n’t wound . )

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Speaking withReporte Indigo , Elfman was call for if sports fan should expect to hear a fresh theme accompany the Dark Knight , or if he ’d be incorporate Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL ’s body of work fromBatman v Superman . The interviewer received a pretty clear answer :

Here we go - Danny Elfman confirming he will NOT be using Zimmer / Junkie ’s Batman material / theme in#JusticeLeaguehttps://t.co/6LFpg1bf1ypic.twitter.com / VEkHUJhQaF

— Anton Volkov ( @antovolk)October 31 , 2017

Comic book art: Batman faces the four Robins: Nightwing Dick Grayson, Red Hood Jason Todd, Red Robin Tim Drake, and Robin Damian Wayne.

Amusingly , Elfman seems a chip taken aback by the theme that he would apply any other theme for the Caped Crusader , laughingly replying,“you will learn Batman ’s theme for Batman " . He does take a beat to compliment Hans Zimmer ( who also composed the grudge for theDark Knighttrilogy ) , as to not completely dismiss his employment , before confidently stating that"Batman has only had one theme . “Whether or not Elfman is simply posit that other composers never establish a truthful theme for the character in technical terms , he clearly views his own piece of work to be the definitive Bat - strain . To be true , it ’s hard to argue with him .

With Warner Bros. ' promotional campaign for the film well afoot , the news fittingly occur in the midst of ' Batman week ' , a seven mean solar day stretch plan to observe all thing Dark Knight as well as rag Modern information about the former iteration of Gotham ’s keen hero . Interestingly enough , it also comes less than a Clarence Shepard Day Jr. after the release of a newJustice Leaguepromo in which Ben Affleck declared that fans were set to see"the organic evolution of a fresh Batman . “Perhaps this interlingual rendition wo n’t be quite as groundbreaking as all that , but badly , Danny Elfman ’s theme song is as good as it get . This is a grownup win across the board , in our eyes .