The famed film composer has scored both Bale’s Dark Knight trilogy and Affleck in Batman v Superman, however he really struggled with the latter.
Speaking with Inverse, Zimmer admitted how he preferred composing for Bale’s incarnation, compared to Affleck’s – who is next due to cameo in Wonder Woman.
He said: “I spent months trying to come up with something for Ben.
“The Batman that I know and the one I learned is the one that Christian did, and Ben plays it differently. And I can’t quite shake that off.”
Zimmer continued: “For me, the Christian Bale character was always completely unresolved.
“It was always about that moment at the beginning of the first movie, where he sees his parents getting killed.
“It was basically arrested development. The Ben character is more middle-aged, he seems to be grumpy as hell but I didn’t feel the pain that I felt in Christian’s performance. And it was that pain that made be interested.”
The film composer also admitted how his brain couldn’t quite cope with two Batmans and felt he was betraying Bale.
He added: “It just did my brain in to have written Christian Bale as Batman, and suddenly it’s Ben Affleck [in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice].
“And it felt like I was betraying everything Christian had done. So there’s a certain amount of loyalty attached to those movies, as well.”
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