BURBANK, Calif. (Top40 Charts/ Warner Bros. Pictures) WaterTower
Music has announced the release of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of
Shadows - The Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack with an original score by Oscar®, Grammy and Golden
Globe Award-winning composer
Hans Zimmer (Inception, The Dark Knight,
Gladiator and The Lion King) at physical and digital retailers on December 13, 2011.
"While visiting Roma settlements in Slovakia, I discovered unbelievable musicianship"
The creation of this album brought Zimmer—who also scored the blockbuster Sherlock Holmes,for which he received an Oscar® nomination—all the way to Slovakia to capture the traditional sounds of the Roma people and bring an authentic musical accompaniment to the picture.
In addition to receiving the 18 tracks on the album, fans who purchase the soundtrack will also be able to download three free additional tracks from the film, along with a video chronicling Mr. Zimmer's journey to Slovakia to record the music of the Roma people. "While visiting Roma settlements in Slovakia, I discovered unbelievable musicianship," said Zimmer. "We heard a few bands, loved their playing and invited them to Vienna, where we went into a tiny recording studio and started making music. I don't speak Romani, and they can't speak German or English, but when we sat down and started playing, there was no question about what language we needed to speak," continued Zimmer.
Hans Zimmer has received nine Academy Award® nominations for his scores for Inception, Sherlock Holmes, Gladiator, The Thin Red Line, The
Prince of Egypt, As Good As It Gets, The Preacher's Wife, Rain Man and The Lion King, winning the Oscar® for the last. His more recent film credits include
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Kung Fu
Panda 2 and Rango.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of
Shadows stars Robert Downey Jr., reprising the title role of the world's most famous detective, and Jude Law as his friend and colleague,
Dr. John Watson.
Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room…until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large—Professor
James Moriarty—and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may give him an advantage over the renowned detective.
Holmes' investigation into Moriarty's plot becomes more dangerous as it leads him and Watson out of London to France, Germany and finally Switzerland. But the cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead, and moving perilously close to completing his ominous plan. If he succeeds, it will not only bring him immense wealth and power but alter the course of history.
Filmmaker Guy
Ritchie returned to direct Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, the follow-up to the smash hit Sherlock Holmes. The sequel also reunited producers Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin. Bruce Berman and Steve Clark-Hall served as executive producers. The film also stars Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, Eddie Marsan,
Kelly Reilly and Rachel McAdams. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of
Shadows was written by Michele Mulroney & Kieran Mulroney. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were created by the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and appear in stories and novels by him.
Warner Bros.
Pictures presents, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, a
Silver Pictures Production, in association with Wigram Productions, a Guy
Ritchie Film, "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows." The film will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures. The film has been rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action and some drug material.
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