NEWS – Trent Reznor Discusses Collaborating With David Fincher
Published on December 28, 2011 by Christian Sellers · No Comments
David Fincher first began his association with Trent Reznor in 1995. Having felt scorned by his experience on his feature debut Alien³, Fincher returned three years later with a complex and disturbing drama entitled Se7en, which traced the investigation into a series of murders supposedly based on the seven deadly sins. While the score was composed by Howard Shore, the soundtrack featured music that was already available from a host of artists, including David Bowie and Gravity Kills. The opening credits were set to the sound of Closer to God, a remix of the Nine Inch Nails track Closer.
Reznor and Fincher worked once again when the latter directed the promo video for the Nine Inch Nails song Only in 2005, which eventually led to Reznor and his close friend, Atticus Ross, being hired to score the soundtrack to Fincher’s last movie, The Social Network. With Reznor and Ross receiving an Academy Award for their work it was perhaps unsurprising when Fincher approached them yet again to provide the music for his reworking of the Swedish thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The first track released from the score was an industrial cover of the Led Zeppelin classic Immigrant Song, with vocals from Karen O of the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times Reznor talked about working with Fincher once again and how he came to rework the Led Zeppelin track; “That was David coming to me and saying, “What do you think about a version of this?” I wouldn’t have thought of it. But I don’t think of it in terms of how he sees it in the film, and he doesn’t always explain himself. You learn to fill in the blanks. David didn’t just make this up. That was not an off-the-cuff suggestion. So whereas I may look at it and go, “Well, I’m not sure about that,” I have to stop myself and think it through.”
Regarding how working on the soundtrack to a Hollywood movie differs from the experience of writing and recording mostly by himself on Nine Inch Nails he adds; “In my world, I never let anyone hear anything until it’s at a point where I feel it’s great. This is foreign, sure, Atticus and I don’t work that way. For two people who have never really been in a band with other people, this is that sense of collaboration I have always longed for. I could never find this in a band environment. I always wished I could have three other guys help carry the load and share in the rewards and failures, but it was always too difficult to allow that to happen.”
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