Pirates of the Caribbean scoring

I put a comment about the whole Klaus Badelt/Zimmer thing and how Badelt did receive credit for the New Pirates of the Caribbean 2 movie. I dug this up from one of the message boards from a poster by the name of Krypton545. Here’s what he had to say,

((As you all know Klaus is not scoring the sequel, but I think many of the assumptions posted have been inaccurate. Some of you thought that even though Hans is scoring the sequel that Klaus would have some say, but that idea is actually completely off-base.

Klaus got the gig for Pirates of the Caribbean when he was working out of Media Ventures, aka Remote Control Productions, and the general assumption would be because of the time that it came out and how they needed to replace Alan Silvestri's withdrawn score quickly, the gig was initially offered to Hans, who was likely busy with other projects at the time and had to turn down the chance to do it himself. Hans had been Badelt's mentor for quite some time and inevitably referred the producers and director of Pirates to Badelt.

However, within the past year or so Hans and Klaus have generally not been communicating because they had an argument and Klaus has since been working out of his home rather than working at Remote Control. You could come up with a million scenarios as to why, but from all that I've heard, my understanding is that Hans didn't exactly think Pirates of the Caribbean was going to become the big success that it was and is likely part of why he's doing the sequel and not Klaus. The genesis of their argument was likely about the fact that Hans may have gone about securing the job as the composer for the sequel in a less than respectful manner, when in all honesty, Klaus should have been given the first opportunity to continue writing music for the franchise, which it doesn't seem like he was.

I won't lie, I'm not the world's biggest Hans Zimmer fan and think the guy could use a serious ego check. Look at his IMDb default profile picture and tell me he doesn't look at all arrogant. Could their argument have been about something as trivial as a car accident? Sure. But I don't think Badelt's mentor taking over for him on the sequel to one of the biggest films in 2003 is some sort of surprising coincidence, especially after they had a feud that is known to most of the people working in post production on big films in the Los Angeles area. Just something to think about if you're a die-hard Hans Zimmer fan.

In the world of post production, Hans is Klaus' superior and Hans oversaw Klaus on the Pirates of the Caribbean score, not the other way around. So in Hans' eyes there's not a chance in this world that their roles on blockbuster projects could possibly get reversed.))

Hmm, it seems they have had a falling out; Klaus Badelt seems to have moved on and ended their relationship.