When Hans Zimmer signed up to compose the score to Ron Howard's Hillbilly Elegy, he probably thought he knew what to expect.
It was the pair's ninth project together, following successful collaborations on the likes of Backdraft, Frost/Nixon, and The Da Vinci Code.
David Fleming, who previously collaborated with Zimmer on the music to Blue Planet II, The Lion King, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, and the upcoming Wonder Woman 1984 and Top Gun: Maverick, had come onboard Hillbilly Elegy as co-composer.