You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishikesh Herway.

This episode contains explicit language, but if you haven't seen Dune yet, there aren't any spoilers, other than a very basic description of the premise of the movie, which I'm about to do now.

The movie Dune was released on October 21st. It's the most recent adaptation of Frank Herbert's epic science fiction novel from 1965.

The film was directed by Denis Villeneuve and the score was written by Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer.

Hans Zimmer has scored over 200 films and he's been nominated for Oscars 11 times.

He and Denis Villeneuve first worked together on the film Blade Runner 2049.

Dune tells the story of the Atreides family as they relocate to the desert planet of Virokis.

When Hans Zimmer first started working on the music, he made what he calls a sketchbook, creating motifs and themes that might occur in the film.

In this episode, he takes us through the first sketch that he did for Dune. It's called Paul's Dream.

A film composed of 70% of the weight of his life.

My name is Hans Zimmer, I'm a film composer and that was the job I had on Dinnie Villeneuve's Dune.

We have a mutual friend, our editor Jo Walker.

Joan, we go back. We worked for the BBC in 1988.

Joe actually started out as a composer,

and I think that's an important part to know,

because he cuts in a very musical way.

I remember Joe Furling up and going,

we're a little stuck on this project, Blade Runner 2049,

and it was somewhere in that time that Denise said,

the words, doon to me.

It's a lifetime story, really.

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